This meme is going around is so so terribly ignorant of what Tea Party actually did that it’s painful, unless it’s deliberately misleading. Tea Party took over *electorally* by being energized *and* strategic and well-funded—the protests mattered some but only through that path. https://t.co/hJQQhOEOm8
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There is actually a lot the left and the Dems could learn from the Tea Party experience but it requires actually finding out what happened. Not writing your own ignorant narrative.
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This isn’t an argument for or against direct action. Successful movements use a range of tactics—deployed strategically. But the way Dems/left have let electoral infrastructure become hollow on their side for decades is the a big reason *under their control* for their weakness.
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How underfunded they have been comparatively to the Tea Party is an important example. Dems don’t fund or tend to electoral/civic infrastructure, nor do “liberal” billionaires the way it happens on the right. Those are factors under their own control. https://twitter.com/thestagmania/status/1049043054089392128 …
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A lot of “civility” talk, too. It’s a distraction. Successful movements don’t fetishize a method. They seek strength & strategy. Otherwise being against “civility” is Twitter bluster but besides the point. What’s the strategic path? Then comes the method. https://twitter.com/hindchristopher/status/1049043472127336450 …
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If you were writing a history of the how the Supreme Court tipped, you’d probably start with the 2010 midterm election. The Dems, in effect, abandoned every other lever power in the country besides the presidency. The right did not.https://twitter.com/r0wdy_/status/1049043721717575681 …
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The latest inflection, let’s say. It is an inflection in my view.
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