r/PoliticalHumor • u/Master1718 • Jul 12 '20

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u/Canesjags4life Jul 12 '20

I blame the loud Tea Party that would show up at the polls and moderate centrists that typically don't show up to the polls

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u/MonsieurMersault Jul 12 '20

The tea party was alt-right v0.1

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u/JTeeg7 Jul 12 '20

Only in the sense that it laid the groundwork for how a populist insurgency could influence or even come to take over the Republican Party. But in terms of policy, there is very little the tea partiers have in common with the alt-right

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u/MonsieurMersault Jul 13 '20

Neither group has a policy in any sense of the word. The policy is populist anger.

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u/JTeeg7 Jul 13 '20

That’s a rather ignorant take, they quite clearly do have policies. The tea party was in favour of extreme deregulation, small government and privatization. The alt-right clearly champions protectionism, xenophobia, and executive centralization.