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Offline JackSchlitz

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Does the Tea Party still have any influence?
« on: May 20, 2016, 03:25:48 am »
From what I have seen the Tea Party group is split over Trump ....some support him but the minority seems not to.  Does Trump even need them?  I dont think so.

I was on the Tea Party message board the other day....really pathetic.  So hung up on ideology. 

But isn't just about everyone...arguing about who is a conservative or liberal or who is not. etc.

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Re: Does the Tea Party still have any influence?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2016, 03:29:56 am »
Many local TEA party groups were taken over by social conservatives who alienated the core of the groups by instituting religious tests, etc.  Without libertarian and fiscal conservative support, they've shriveled.
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Re: Does the Tea Party still have any influence?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2016, 03:46:01 am »
Many of the groups were highly self-destructive as well. From the complete opposition to formal or centralized structure (thus causing factioning and failure to pool resources) to many of the going off on wild tangents from their original scope (birtherism, conspiracy mongers, national enquirer/conservative treehouse level tabloidism), they set themselves up for failure.
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Re: Does the Tea Party still have any influence?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2016, 04:02:39 am »
Quote from: JackSchlitz on May 20, 2016, 03:25:48 am
From what I have seen the Tea Party group is split over Trump ....some support him but the minority seems not to.  Does Trump even need them?  I dont think so.

I was on the Tea Party message board the other day....really pathetic.  So hung up on ideology. 

But isn't just about everyone...arguing about who is a conservative or liberal or who is not. etc.

Anyone supporting Trump cannot claim to be TEA Party, he stand against it. Solidly against it.
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Re: Does the Tea Party still have any influence?
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2016, 11:02:03 am »
Quote from: JackSchlitz on May 20, 2016, 03:25:48 am


I was on the Tea Party message board the other day....really pathetic.  So hung up on ideology.

But isn't just about everyone...arguing about who is a conservative or liberal or who is not. etc.

Just curious...what does that bolded word mean to you? Context ("So hung up"...) makes it soundlike a bad thing.

Is it? Why?

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