A lot of us "tea party" types already knew the likes of Mitch, Mitt, and Cheney were losers back in the day. The problem is too many old-guard (boomer) republicans and normies felt they were the only "safe" choices, precisely because they didn't make waves. It was a downward spiral that fed into itself. You heard about this stuff on Rush Limbaugh all the time, not to mention a variety of other radio hosts and sites.
There's also a tendency for normies to get caught in believing that it's the devil you know vs. the one you don't. Which means they'll go for the "familiar and comfortable" candidate, even if they don't agree with them.
The rest of us would hold our noses, knowing that the leftist would be much worse. And we were right.
But I think if Trump proved anything, it's that the normies can be convinced that it's not always the "familiar" candidate you want to vote for.
The tea party is a perfect example of why a third party wouldn't work.
I still think you tea party types don't understand what happened to you.
You think it was the boomers and going with all the safe choices etc.
when would actually happened is the swamp infiltrated your movement and screwed it up so that it couldn't get off the ground.
That's why the only way for anything to be success is if we infiltrate The GOP since the infrastructure is already there. Turn about is fair play and take over their party
That was a MOVEMENT, not a real party with solid foundation. Dozens of new GOP congressmen were elected to the House in 2010 midterm, but a few years later they were either voted out or degraded into RINOs. MAGA was a peaceful revolution, a much stronger movement, but still a movement nonetheles. We scored a historical victory in 2016 by sending Trump into the white house, but without institutions and corporations, he couldn't fight the establishment machine on his own. The strategy has to change.
A lot of us "tea party" types already knew the likes of Mitch, Mitt, and Cheney were losers back in the day. The problem is too many old-guard (boomer) republicans and normies felt they were the only "safe" choices, precisely because they didn't make waves. It was a downward spiral that fed into itself. You heard about this stuff on Rush Limbaugh all the time, not to mention a variety of other radio hosts and sites.
There's also a tendency for normies to get caught in believing that it's the devil you know vs. the one you don't. Which means they'll go for the "familiar and comfortable" candidate, even if they don't agree with them.
The rest of us would hold our noses, knowing that the leftist would be much worse. And we were right.
But I think if Trump proved anything, it's that the normies can be convinced that it's not always the "familiar" candidate you want to vote for.
The tea party is a perfect example of why a third party wouldn't work.
I still think you tea party types don't understand what happened to you.
You think it was the boomers and going with all the safe choices etc.
when would actually happened is the swamp infiltrated your movement and screwed it up so that it couldn't get off the ground.
That's why the only way for anything to be success is if we infiltrate The GOP since the infrastructure is already there. Turn about is fair play and take over their party
That was a MOVEMENT, not a real party with solid foundation. Dozens of new GOP congressmen were elected to the House in 2010 midterm, but a few years later they were either voted out or degraded into RINOs. MAGA was a peaceful revolution, a much stronger movement, but still a movement nonetheles. We scored a historical victory in 2016 by sending Trump into the white house, but without institutions and corporations, he couldn't fight the establishment machine on his own. The strategy has to change.