1/ Meet the new tea party, same as the old tea party washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… Both mobilized the grass roots with crackpot conspiracy theories, racial dog whistles and apocalyptic depictions of the impending liberal destruction of the American life.
2/ Just as before, the new tea partyism is functioning as a kind of front-line energizing force that could help enable a series of GOP donor-class and plutocratic interests to grind the current progressive economic moment to a halt. 
3/ For the old tea party, claims of destruction of the American way and charges of socialism about a health care that conservatives once championed. In practice, the energized base meant a House GOP takeover — and a check on progressivism that led to years of grueling austerity
4/ The same is happening again, charges of “Marxism” and “socialism”. The same blend of pathological fearmongering could again energize the base in a way that could enable right-wing economic interests to stage a check on economic progress.
I find it ironic that today's republicans have forgotten how real American patriots protested on December 16, 1773 - they marched down the streets of Boston and dumped all that tea in the harbor....
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