Where is the Tea Party now,,,?

Crystalline logic there.  One flows from another like night into day.

The Democratic Party suffered huge losses at every level during Obama’s West Wing tenure.

The grand total: a net loss of 1,042 state and federal Democratic posts, including congressional and state legislative seats, governorships and the presidency.

Democratic U.S. Senate seats fell from 55 to 46. Their share of the House plummeted from 256 seats to 194. Republicans still control both chambers going into the next session. 

Democratic governerships also became a rarity during this eight-year period, slipping from 28 to 16.

The Obama years, which saw the rise of the Tea Party as well as a new movement form around Trump that is still being defined, coincided with a loss of 958 state legislative seats for Democrats.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/27/democrats-lost-over-1000-seat...

>The Obama years, which saw the rise of the Tea Party 

no shit, sherlock. which as OP points out had nothing to do with fiscal responsibility and everything to do with racism.

>> Where is the Tea Party now,,,?

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

He's only half black, Nancy.

Thom is dhense.

Thom probably considers himself only HALF a racist. 

Mr. Anglosphere cites Democratic losses during black presidents admin but fails to recognize the reason: racist backlash stoked by Koch and Bannon factions. 

"Easy to run against a black president" said nearly every red state GOP official. 

How does Tuesday look to Thomm?  Still being defined?

CrossCheck. Gerrymandering.

Seriously, F Thom.

The ironic thing is that Obama's policies weren't that radical, which supports even more that the backlash was purely race driven.

Obama was elected by the Left on a mandate of change, and he won big. People thought that because he was black he’d turn everything on it’s head. They even gave him a Nobel Prize for being Black. He hadn’t done anything, and he really wasn’t a pacifist. He did some progressive stuff, but things didn’t change that much.

The Right also wanted change, so in came the Tea Party. They got disaffected poor and middle class Whites out to vote, and took all sorts of seats. They didn’t change shit either, and where they did, it fucked most people over. 

So, now we have Trump. Drain the swamp, make America Great again, all that crap. It was another platform of change, but he too hasn’t and won’t change much. Plus, the majority really doesn’t like him and his proposed changes are abhorrent to most people. So much for that change.

Maybe we should all slow down this this change crap. The strength of our political system is that it doesn’t really favor big, fast changes. Even with a Republican Executive and Congress, they can’t change the ACA. “Change” isn’t a viable policy, and it’s a weak platform to run on. 

BrianK for the win

Republicans control the majority of country.

so I guess they are doing OK

Old news Thom. The Reflubs lost bigly in Virginia on Tuesday. Might even flip the legislature,  where they held an 18 seat advantage. 2018 can't get here soon enough. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/democrat-concedes...