Mark Shields Quotes About Tea Party

• Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the House have paid a price for it ever since, because they cannot pass anything comprehensive or real because of the Freedom Caucus, which is the child, the product, the progeny of the Tea Party.

  Mark Shields

  Children, Real, Party

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But what the Tea Party did was, they went after the party, the Republican Party, as their vehicle. And parties is how you change history.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Tea, Looks

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Tea, Down And

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• The final thing the Tea Party had was, they fed into the philosophy that Donald Trump now embodies. So they had a different view of how the world should be governed. And so they had a lot of things that we didn't appreciate going for them as time went by.

  Mark Shields

  Philosophy, Party, Views

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And so whether there is something that is equally unpopular and equally galvanizing that is almost self-destructive from the administration, that's another factor that we will wait and see.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Thinking, Self

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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