Reply #5: Any influence the Tea Party has made on our nation has to do with the media

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constantly both legitimizing their movement and catapulting their propaganda.

I find myself believing that TPTB simply wanted to provide a rationale and justification for swinging the Republican Party much further right (with the Democrats dutifully following behind) and so they created this movement, provided the theater, and thus then had the cover to do what they wanted to do with our nation's body politic.

It all seems so scripted and coordinated.