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In reply to the discussion: we need a democratic tea part movement [View all]k2qb3
(374 posts)The first phase was the libertarians and other insurgent forces protesting the 2008 primary and the direction the party was moving.
The second phase was the fiscal/economic/business conservatives jumping on the libertarian small government/less taxes train and making a single issue stand against tax increases.
The third phase was when the conservative media, social conservatives, and every sort of right wing whackjob saw a vehicle they could use to push their agenda and all piled in and created a wave that swept the midterms.
It was only the third-wave, FOXnews crowd that got what they wanted, which was more or less what the first wave was protesting against.
Sean Hannity actually got booed off a stage at an early Tea Party rally, a year later he was headlining them.