Tea Party Refuses to Go Away

another element another side American politics right now is the Tea Party and the Tea Party seems to be refusing to die Louis the Atlantic as an interesting article saying we've heard this all before the Tea Party was supposed to be dead the republican party on the way to moderate repositioning after Obama's victory and democratic congressional gains in November 2012 yet less than a year after post-election Republican soul-searching supposedly occurred radical forces polled almost all Republican House and Senate members into at least going along with more than two weeks extortion tactics namely the government shutdown and the article goes on to talk about how there are still big money funders and free-market advocacy organizations that are still kinda behind the Tea Party this is very interesting to me Lewis because when the Tea Party first rose to fame I what's a rose to power because I would question how much power they ever never really had but when they rose to prominence we said and I think we we agreed Louis one of two things will happen to the Tea Party it will disappear completely and not be talked about or it will essentially be Indic integrated into the broader Republican Party and just will be indistinguishable from mainstream republicans been republicans and what's interesting is that while those things have happened the Tea Party more is an idea has not disappeared I believe the reason is because there is still a strong wing of the Republican Party that is obsessed with so-called read 'em and libertarian type values and that is going to continue I guess funding or pushing the so-called Tea Party even if the specific politicians and the group have lost a lot of that power yeah well I guess they're not really doing themselves any big favors by still calling itself the parties to me why don't they just call themselves libertarians at least there's that movement as well there and at least three taking a little bit more seriously my the so-called libertarian movement branded as such has never become as palatable the Tea Party rose in direct opposition to President Obama some say that the Tea Party movement will die with President Obama completing his second term I think if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee the Tea Party boys will still be there there's some kind of PR value to tea party that libertarian doesn't have Louis and that's what's keeping the Tea Party alive even if there are kind of shared values in significant amount there yeah well I think we can both agree that it's not really helping the GOP have pity party still be active I guess right I think you're probably right I mean when you look at the the Tea Party the prominent Tea Party years in the republican party people like are now Rand Paul Ted Cruz I think would call a tea partier there's definitely a rift between then and people like Chris Christie at the same time the Lewis I don't know that chris Christie is viable nationally for republicans so while there is conflict there I don't actually know that putting all the eggs in the chris Christie type basket is going to reap rewards for republicans I'll tell you what if what if these Tea Party years it becomes the guy GOP guy I be candidate they're not going to call themselves Tea Partiers anymore