The Tea Party Treatment for the America First Coalition: Same playbook, same coalition
In 2009, a grassroots revolt against bailouts, bureaucratic overreach, and a bipartisan Washington consensus was met – within a few short years – by a coordinated squeeze from four directions at once. The squeezers included the Democrat Party and Obama White House, their legacy media sycophants, the Republican establishment, and the trade associations and consultants who depend on both parties staying roughly where they are, politically speaking.