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RESISTANCE:
The Trump Resistance vs. the Tea Party: So Far, a Story of Immense
Potential - and Great Danger
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The Trump Resistance vs. the Tea Party: So Far, a Story of Immense
Potential - and Great Danger
The anti-Trump movement could transform politics more than the Tea Party
ever did or it could get Astroturfed
Conor Lynch
Topics: Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, Liberals, Progressives,
resistance, Russia, Tea Party, The Left, the resistance, Politics News
Salon
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/01/the-trump-resistance-vs-the-tea-party-
so-far-a-story-of-immense-potential-and-great-danger/
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http://tinyurl.com/y7chdaqa
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Shortly after Donald Trumps victory last November, calls for the left to
form its own version of the Tea Party to resist the newly elected
president were almost instantaneous. Panic-stricken at the mere thought of
a Trump administration, liberals and progressives found something vaguely
comforting in the idea of a Tea Party of the left. Although it was never
quite clear how people envisaged such a thing, it is obvious why the
right-wing movement came to mind. The Tea Party was, after all, largely
successful in transforming American politics and paving the way for Donald
Trump.
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It is easy to forget that just eight years earlier the Republican Party
looked doomed as a national party. Barack Obama had been easily elected as
the first African-American president and Democrats had gained seats in
both the House and Senate, giving the party control of both the executive
and legislative branches for the first time in nearly 15 years. In other
words, the emerging Democratic majority seemed inevitable and so did the
death of the Grand Old Party.
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Looking back, it certainly seems possible that the GOP would have
continued down this death spiral had it not been for the Obama backlash
that manifested itself in the Tea Party. That movement mobilized thousands
if not millions of Americans (with the help of billionaire donors), and
eventually led to the Republicans taking back the House in 2010 and
narrowing the Democratic majority in the Senate. But it was the GOPs
success at state and local levels that had a far bigger impact on the
future of American politics.
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The Republican Party made historic gains in state legislatures that year,
winning majorities in 20 new legislative chambers that had been in
Democratic hands going into the election. It is now widely recognized,
seven years after the fact, that the GOP invested heavily in local and
state elections in order to seize control of the redistricting process
(which happens every decade following a census year such as 2010).
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Drawing new district lines in states with the most redistricting activity
presented the opportunity to solidify conservative policymaking at the
state level and maintain a Republican stronghold in the U.S. House of
Representatives for the next decade, explained Chris Jankowski, the
Republican strategist behind the notorious REDMAP project. At the time, of
course, most people especially Democrats were caught completely off
guard. The great gerrymander of 2010 was unlike any gerrymandering plan in
history, and new redistricting softwares turned the age-old practice into
a precise science that secured the GOPs House majority for at least a
generation.
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All of this made the Republican Partys revival (and the Democratic Partys
collapse) possible, and it is hard to imagine that historic turnaround
without the Tea Party, which used local and state politics to overcome a
clear national disadvantage. It worked in spectacular fashion: Since 2010
the Democrats have lost about 1,000 state legislative seats in total.
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It is only natural, then, for Democrats and progressives to look back at
the Tea Party for some guidance in 2017, which is exactly what the authors
of the widely read Indivisible document did last December, offering a
step-by-step guide for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to
replicate the Tea Partys success in getting Congress to listen to a small,
vocal, dedicated group of constituents. While their report highlighted the
obvious importance of local politics and grass-roots lobbying (e.g. ,town
halls, sit-ins, coordinated calls, etc.), the authors also identified
characteristics of the Tea Party that should be absolutely avoided such
as ignoring reality, making up ones own facts and threatening anybody who
is considered an enemy.
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Of course, the resistance has been far from perfect, and at times liberals
seem to be imitating the Tea Party in all the wrong ways. For example,
many liberals have also come to ignore reality and create their own facts,
while falling for conspiracy theories that bolster their increasingly
paranoid worldview (particularly when it comes to Russia). Just as Tea
Partiers once accused Obama of being a Kenyan-born Muslim, many liberals
are today convinced that Trump is a Russian spy who is guilty of treason.
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While there are certainly some populist and anti-establishment elements in
the Trump resistance evinced by certain progressive groups that are
challenging centrist Democrats in the primaries a kind of
single-mindedness has limited the movements scope. Liberals have become so
fixated on Trump and Russia that the Democratic establishment has been
able to avoid taking responsibility for the massive failure of 2016, while
co-opting the grass-roots energy to serve its own purposes.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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