Tea Party movement finds a new champion in Trump (swill)

[corbe]

Tea Party movement finds a new champion in Trump

by Brett Samuels - 03/09/25 12:00 PM ET

Tea Party stalwarts who have seen their movement fizzle are finding a new champion in President Trump and see his second administration as a culmination and validation of their efforts.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who gave his first political speech at a Tea Party rally in Oshkosh, Wis., in 2009 as the movement was picking up steam, said he saw parallels when attending Trump rallies in recent years in terms of enthusiasm and the types of supporters it attracted.

“The Tea Party sort of went dormant or atrophied after 2014, ‘15, ‘16,” Johnson said in an interview. “Until Trump came on the scene, and he reignited it in a different form.”

Trump has prioritized cutting government spending by empowering billionaire Elon Musk to slash federal contracts deemed wasteful, and he has seized on the same kind of populist grassroots energy seen in the Tea Party movement.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5183338-tea-party-movement-trump/

[catfish1957]

I think the deficit spending '17-20, would preclude any cannonizing of our present POTUS in Tea Party terms. 

I like what I see say so far this term though ...   Go DOGE go...   Gut Fedzilla.