CDZ Trump Protesters Borrow From Tea Party to Put Pressure on Lawmakers

[Fishlore]

With methodical door-to-door campaigns in the next year’s midterm elections, the Tea Party ended the careers of some of the nation’s most senior lawmakers. It pushed the Republican Party to the right, stymied the Obama agenda and ultimately paved the way for an outsider to win the White House.

This year, it is that new president, Donald J. Trump, who is cast as a radical. And as the resistance to him on the left tries to turn the massive protest rallies of the last two weeks into political power, it is borrowing explicitly from the Tea Party playbook. The early result has been the biggest outpouring of constituent anger on members of Congress since the Tea Party’s rise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

 

[JakeStarkey]

TPM was responsible for increasing Democratic seats in the House and the Senate and just narrowly missed defeating Trump.

The anti-Trumpers are now showing the TPM how to organize and be effective.

 

[usmbguest5318]

With methodical door-to-door campaigns in the next year’s midterm elections, the Tea Party ended the careers of some of the nation’s most senior lawmakers.

??? Don't you think it a bit early to predict what impact next year's actions have already had on past and existing careers?

 

[Fishlore]

I think you may have misread the sentence. "Next year's" refers to the year after the TEA Party began activism in the town hall meetings, not 2018. The suggestion is that the tactic of hassling incumbents in their district town halls might work for the Dems as it did for the Reps. Who knows?

 

[Staidhup]

You will recall the TP movement didn't riot, burn, nor enact obstructionist behavior? They simply asked tough questions and demanded truthful answers. What the progressive socialist movement just can't stand is the threat that what was promised by the prior administration, never realized, will not materialize.