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10 - Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2023

Patrick Rafail
Affiliation:
Tulane University, Louisiana
John D. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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After 2014, the Tea Party began reverting back to its elite origins, as grassroots activism mostly disappeared and politicians aligned with the insurgency left office. This chapter describes the major synthetic conclusions of our book, and the current state of the Tea Party insurgency. Overall, we argue the Tea Party followed a top-down, bottom-up, and then top-down trajectory. Our research underscores the importance of understanding how economic threats motivate conservative activism, as well as the enduring importance of the choices that activists make about mobilizing structures to sustain their activism. The diffuse, decentralized mobilizing structures built by Tea Party activists were similarly selected by progressive movements, such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. As a result, the lessons drawn from the Tea Party may apply to other recent waves of mobilization.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Conclusion
  • Patrick Rafail, Tulane University, Louisiana, John D. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book: The Rise, Fall, and Influence of the Tea Party Insurgency
  • Online publication: 07 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009423724.011
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  • Conclusion
  • Patrick Rafail, Tulane University, Louisiana, John D. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book: The Rise, Fall, and Influence of the Tea Party Insurgency
  • Online publication: 07 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009423724.011
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  • Conclusion
  • Patrick Rafail, Tulane University, Louisiana, John D. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book: The Rise, Fall, and Influence of the Tea Party Insurgency
  • Online publication: 07 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009423724.011
Available formats
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