Alternatively, maybe the Tea Party wasn't the grassroots "movement" it alleged to be. Instead it was a massive astroturfing campaign funded by billionaires and had media buy-in from the jump. bsky.app/profile/adri...

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.