The Tea Party Isn’t Dead

It should come as no surprise that there’s been a lot of talk in the mainstream media recently about the “death of the Tea Party.” This is an old narrative that the establishment and its media allies have tried several times already, and those of us in the movement know to ignore it by now. But with so many grassroots Conservatives finding themselves frustrated with their choices of presidential candidates, this seems like a moment to affirm our strength and plot our course to take this country back.

The Daily Caller was kind enough to publish my thoughts on this topic, in an Op-Ed titled “The Tea Party Isn’t Dead.” In it, I conclude:

Were the tea party movement a unified bloc, with a D.C. lobbying office, allies inside the establishment elite, and an agenda formed by special interests and big-money donors, the pundits might be correct in pointing out the tea party’s “weakness” in this presidential nomination process. But this assumption ignores how fundamentally the tea party has changed politics…

What the pundits are really saying is not that the tea party has lost its clout, but that the tea party has failed to play the traditional game of Washington, D.C. politics. This condemnation should be a badge of pride for the tea party: it is signal proof of success, not failure.

Read the whole thing here.