A Tea Party oped by the *co-author* of the seminal book on the Tea Party before everyone on the left got interested. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/12/opinions/tea-party-of-the-left-williamson-opinion/ …pic.twitter.com/9zh30NqTMv
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A Tea Party oped by the *co-author* of the seminal book on the Tea Party before everyone on the left got interested. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/12/opinions/tea-party-of-the-left-williamson-opinion/ …pic.twitter.com/9zh30NqTMv
Here's another Tea Party piece worth reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/resistance-tea-party/516105/ …
Obviously—like any comparison—no exact fit between the current Dem/base mobilization and the Tea Party movement but there is a lesson.
First, whenever Tea Party comes up, bunch of people say "but Koch brothers!" That's not even really true, and also, if so—what's the lesson?
Like it or not, Tea Party was a movement; it did mobilize; and *yes* some groups & money in the Repub orbit swooped in to catalyze effect.
And, arguably, as I argued long before the election when I pointed out that Trump was viable via the Tea Party base, the Tea Party is+
..among the most consequential mobilizations/political movements in recent history. Having a billionaire backer helps, but if it were that+
..easy, why doesn't a billion or two on the other side work the same way? There are lessons here for paths of mobilization & consequences.
youre understating the extent of the Koch network, after reading Dark Money theyre literally an entire parallel party to GOP.
to say a "billion or two" is to minimize what is in essence an entire party apparatus from grassroots to Washington.
Sanders alone raised quarter of a billion. The money is not as mismatched as how it is organized and mobilized.
true but that's 1/3 of what the Koch's spent in 2016 none of which even went to the presidential race..
my point is that the Koch's are organized and mobilized, they have 1600 staff most of it geared towards state level races/issues
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