'Left-wing Tea Party': Dems warned not to let fury lead them to disaster
Raw StoryAn opinion piece in The Washington Post urged Democrats to avoid making the same mistakes conservative Republicans did when they created the Tea Party in the 2000s to take on what they saw as spineless congressional leadership during the Obama administration. In his WaPo opinion piece, columnist Ramesh Ponnuru wrote, "In 2009, Democrats controlled a unified government, and many conservatives were disgusted by what they viewed as their party’s spinelessness — much like progressives feel today." The Tea Party "propelled strictly conservative, anti-establishment candidates to victory in numerous Republican primaries" but lost others because some of their candidates were seen as being too extreme. "The last thing Democrats need is a left-wing Tea Party," Ponnuru argued. Ponnuru wrote that Tea Party-era Republicans "deluded themselves" into thinking "that their party had lost its popular mandate by spending too much money and compromising too much with Democrats.
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