i think before trump republicans relied on tea partyers to do the heavy lifting. let s not forget that shellacking in former president obama s term that the tea party gave to the democrat party in 2010. that was the election everybody was watching and they really saw the tea party strength. it seemed that there were always a few people doing the heavy lifting in the party and i think that trump demonstrated the willingness to fight. what really amazes me, sean, about a lot of the criticisms extended towards former president trump that i think he really did a lot more to fight for everyday people and no republican voters then be pretend bouncers of the republican party who wanted to act like he was an outsider and couldn t sit with them. it was a cut scene from mean girls. maybe they should take lessons from that. sean: we have less than a minute. i have a license to carry, one of the weapons i do carry is a .
party. questioning the election has become an organized principle for republicans, more than two-thirds, plus or minus, of republicans have questions about the election. their candidates are hearing about this constantly. they re echoing these questions. so this is not some fringe issue in the republican party. this is what these candidates are running on, particularly right now in primaries, and it s what a lot of republican base voters and activists want to hear. it is a top concern for them. yeah, you know, gene robinson, this is obviously very disturbing for a lot of people. it can go one of two ways, though. i always think back to what happened. the tea party emerged in 2010. in 2012, candidates tried to sort of out-tea party the tea partyers. barack obama was re-elected. and things didn t go so great for the republican party. in 2014, they became even more extreme. a lot of the candidates became a
April 26, 2021, 7:21 p.m. ET
The MAGA star Mark McCloskey, despite having no political experience, wants to be the next senator from Missouri.Credit.Illustration by The New York Times; Photographs by Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times and Angela Weiss, via Agence France-Presse Getty Images
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Don’t look now, but Mark McCloskey is eyeing a run for the open Senate seat in Missouri.
Yes,
that Mark McCloskey, the wealthy St. Louis lawyer who became a MAGA star after he and his wife, Patricia, brandished semiautomatic weapons at protesters marching past their mansion last June. Barefoot and defiant, the McCloskeys cut quite the figure. The video went viral, boosted by a retweet from former President Donald Trump.
They Came To Destroy
It is 2008 and a black man, Barack Obama, is elected president of the United States….part of the country rejoiced and proclaimed a new ear for the nation……and part went into a conspiracy spiral of doom and gloom.
This doom and gloom gave rise to the Tea Party and the election of many adherents to the precepts of this movement…..fiscal conservatism of lower taxes and debt reduction…..all noble causes that I can understand and even embrace in some part.
It then devolved into limited government, unapologetic U.S. sovereignty, and constitutional originalism.
But who were these original supporters?