• Optional@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Ironically, fox news created the “tea party” out of the OP hullabaloo and that went on to be MAGA. But billionaire media properties FOR democracy? Mmmno.

    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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      The tea party had already joined back up with Republicans by the time of the Jade Helm panic. The tea party movement started around 2009 and Ted Cruz (who was prominent in the movement) won a seat in the senate as a Republican in 2012. The Jade Helm panic was in 2015.