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Remember the GOP “tea party” and the rise of MAGA? The establishment GOP like McCain, Romney and all the big-government neocons complained about Trump not being “presidential” and tried to criticize/hold back the rise of fascism/alt-right populism for fear of losing GOP voters to extremism. The conservative voters and right-leaning independents went along with it, because the alt-right candidates were saying all the hateful things they wanted to say out loud. They were spouting the same self-hating, bootstrap trickle-down far-right capitalist garbage they wanted to hear. The were saying the thing the establishment GOP wouldn’t dare say.
The same thing is happening on the left. Except we have guys like Hasan, who are decent people exposing the hard truths the establishment Dems dare not speak. They push actual leftist policies that the younger Dem base wants. They’re not bought off by big corporate or AIPAC money. And candidates with similar sentiments to Piker are going to sweep the Dem ticket, because they speak to what the base observes with our government.
Another big difference is that the right wing Tea Party movement was astroturfed by assholes like the Koch Brothers while the progressive movement is grassroots fueled by people power. The Tea Party movement was out to trick people while the progressive movement is out to build a better future. The Tea Party was fake as shit while the progressive movement is genuine.
Yup, the tea party was founded by asshats who said, “Gubmet bahhd, I don’t want to pay any taxes at all!” And of course, it was bankrolled by billionaires, large corporations and investment firms, and they slapped a “populist” sticker on it.
Also, they tapped into the sheer rage these people felt over having a Black president. You know how we feel about this fascist regime? This is how the “tea party” repubs felt about Obama, except it lacked any rational basis and was driven by ignorance, a weird attraction to free-market capitalism, lack of education and hatred.