Has the Democratic Tea Party Arrived?

Has the Democratic Tea Party Arrived?

A political party’s voters, fed up with losses recorded by the party’s more moderate, establishment candidates, rebel against the party’s leaders, pressuring them to do things like stop compromising and shut down the government, while promoting candidates who fire up the base but falter in general elections.I’m obviously describing the Tea Party, the political movement that gripped the Republican Party in the early half of the 2010s before being…

Tea Party of the Left?

One of the great unsettled debates of the extended Trump era is whether Democrats need a “Tea Party” movement of their own. Those in favor share the view that the GOP’s brinkmanship and subterfuge need to be answered in kind. As demonstrated by the many Democrats who opposed the November deal eight Senate Democrats struck to end this fall’s government shutdown, party activists believe the days of congenial bipartisan compromise are long gone and…