OPINION: A memo to national media - Brian Kemp is no moderate savior

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

MAGA didn't just materialize out of nowhere.

So what?

If you're suggesting that MAGA is a direct extension of Tea Party Patriots, I won't argue. There's a difference though. The Tea Party wasn't a cult if personality.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

So what?

If you're suggesting that MAGA is a direct extension of Tea Party Patriots, I won't argue. There's a difference though. The Tea Party wasn't a cult if personality.

The GOP radicalized their electorate and tRump came along and gave them a leader to follow. I hear sheep are like that.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

So what?

If you're suggesting that MAGA is a direct extension of Tea Party Patriots, I won't argue. There's a difference though. The Tea Party wasn't a cult if personality.

Yep. The Tea Party were nihilists. Trump gave them something to believe in - himself as the savior of the America of their imaginations, a ChristoFascist autocracy run by a strongman.