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In 2009, a grassroots revolt against bailouts, bureaucratic overreach, and a bipartisan Washington consensus was met\u2014within a few short years\u2014by a coordinated squeeze from four directions at once. The squeezers included the Democrat Party and Obama White House, their legacy media sycophants, the Republican establishment, and the trade associations and consultants who depend on both parties maintaining the status quo.<\/p>\n

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The Tea Party didn\u2019t die of old age. It was out-funded, out-litigated, and out-narrated by a coalition that had far more to lose from its success than from its failure.<\/p>\n

Fifteen years later, a strikingly similar coalition\u2014Democrat officials and strategists, most of the legacy media, a bloc of Senate and House Republicans still oriented toward the pre-2016 political order, and a subset of online right-wing commentators who\u2019ve concluded the project is either failing or captured\u2014is running a comparable playbook against the America First\/MAGA\/MAHA coalition.<\/p>\n

The methods have modernized, with X threads and Substack in place of cable news panels, court injunctions in place of some IRS forms, but the underlying logic is the same. Both movements threatened the machinery\u2014earmarks, revolving-door contracts, regulatory capture, \u201celectability\u201d consulting feeds, and agribusiness and pharmaceutical lobbying arrangements\u2014that both parties\u2019 permanent power structure and their allied industries are built on.<\/p>\n

The analysis below compares the two campaigns tactic by tactic.<\/p>\n

THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT: FUND THE \u201cELECTABLE\u201d OPPONENT, STARVE THE INSURGENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then:<\/strong>\u00a0 After Tea Party victories in 2010 rattled the party establishment ahead of the 2012 Senate elections, particularly through candidates Christine O\u2019Donnell and Sharon Angle, GOP strategist Karl Rove launched the Conservative Victory Project in 2013 explicitly to steer money away from grassroots-backed nominees toward establishment-vetted ones\u2014a move so contentious it triggered what The Washington Post<\/em> called an \u201cinternal GOP clash.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce followed in 2014, publicly pledging tens of millions to back \u201cpro-business\u201d candidates against Tea Party challengers in primaries, largely over the Chamber\u2019s disputes with fiscal hawks on trade, the Export-Import Bank, and the federal budget.<\/p>\n

Now:<\/strong> Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and allies, including Mitch McConnell (R-KY), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), have been characterized in conservative press as slow-walking Trump priorities\u2014from ICE\/Border Patrol funding in the reconciliation package to President Trump\u2019s Ken Paxton endorsement over incumbent Cornyn in the Texas Senate primary\u2014while Cassidy broke with the administration to back a War Powers resolution limiting the president\u2019s authority on Iran.<\/p>\n

Establishment-aligned money is again flowing to \u201celectability\u201d-branded candidates in contested 2026 primaries even where the MAGA base has coalesced around someone else, echoing the Rove\/U.S. Chamber model down to the justification.<\/p>\n

THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY AND COURTS: SLOW-WALK IT, LITIGATE IT, OR QUIETLY GUT IT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then:<\/strong> Starting in 2010, IRS staff in Cincinnati began systematically flagging nonprofit applications from groups with \u201cTea Party,\u201d \u201cPatriots,\u201d or \u201c9\/12\u201d in their names for extended delays and invasive questionnaires. An internal email from exempt-organizations director Lois Lerner called the issue \u201cvery dangerous\u201d as early as February 2011. IRS leadership denied any targeting to Congress for two years before Lerner publicly apologized in May 2013.<\/p>\n

Nonprofit paperwork, not indictments, was the weapon used, and it worked by attrition, tying up volunteer-run groups in compliance costs and uncertainty through an entire election cycle.<\/p>\n

Now:<\/strong> MAHA\u2019s food and pesticide agenda has run into a parallel headwind of court rulings and internal reversal rather than an IRS-style paper trail. A leaked second MAHA Commission report dropped the pesticide restrictions and ultraprocessed-food limits the first report had flagged after the White House reportedly assured agriculture lobbyists those lines wouldn\u2019t be crossed, which prompted even sympathetic voices like Fox\u2019s Laura Ingraham (\u201cBehold the power of Big Ag and Chemical Companies\u201d) and commentator Jeffrey Tucker to accuse administration officials of being \u201cin the pay of Big Food [and] Pharma.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mechanism differs\u2014industry capture from inside rather than IRS obstruction from outside\u2014but the effect is the same. A popular policy gets slow-walked into irrelevance by the political machinery it threatened.<\/p>\n

THE MEDIA: MOCK IT, THEN PAINT IT AS EXTREME<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then: When Rick Santelli\u2019s February 2009 CNBC rant sparked the first Tea Party protests, media outlets including MSNBC, Talking Points Memo, and The Huffington Post treated it\u2014per the Columbia Journalism Review\u2019s own retrospective\u2014with derision (using the \u201ctea-bagger\u201d epithet and mocking cable-panel humor) before pivoting to a second-phase narrative casting the movement as covertly funded and extremist. CJR\u2019s own conclusion was this: \u201cneither strategy\u2014derision or conspiracy theory\u2014worked,\u201d largely because the mockery read as condescension to the people attending the rallies.<\/p>\n

Now: <\/strong>The derision-to-extremism arc has compressed into just the second half. Coverage of MAGA over the past two years has centered on the \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d framing that Joe Biden made explicit in public statements calling MAGA Republicans an \u201cextremist threat.\u201d This framing is being amplified by the legacy media into 2026 midterm coverage, arguing that MAGA messaging itself constitutes disinformation.<\/p>\n

Where the Tea Party got laughed at first and demonized second, the campaign against MAGA\u2014already a well-known quantity to the legacy media from Trump\u2019s first term and 2024 campaign\u2014mostly skipped straight to the demonization framing.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRAT OFFICIALS: NATIONALIZE IT AS AN EXTREMIST THREAT, NOT A POLICY DISAGREEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then:<\/strong> The Obama White House and DNC treated the Tea Party less as a policy movement to rebut than a fringe to be delegitimized, dismissing it publicly, while privately, the IRS scrutiny described above proceeded on a parallel track.<\/p>\n

Now:<\/strong> The rhetoric has escalated from dismissal to explicit \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d language, deployed by Biden as president and carried into current DNC-aligned midterm messaging. Democrat campaign committee chairman Sean Patrick Mahoney has said Republicans and Democrats are \u201cin agreement\u201d that the MAGA agenda is \u201cextreme.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strategic logic is the same as 2010-2014: reframe a policy and personnel fight over spending, immigration enforcement, and federal agency power as a question of legitimacy, which forecloses the need to engage the underlying grievances at all.<\/p>\n

RIGHT-WING GATEKEEPERS AND DISILLUSIONED INSIDERS: THE COALITION EATS ITSELF<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then:<\/strong> Establishment conservative media was more muted in publicly savaging the Tea Party than the left-wing legacy media were, though figures aligned with the establishment Rove wing provided air cover for the \u201cunelectable\u201d narrative used to justify the Conservative Victory Project.<\/p>\n

But the more corrosive insider threat was financial rather than editorial. Insider-led national groups and super PACs that claimed to represent the Tea Party\u2014such as FreedomWorks, Tea Party Express, Tea Party Patriots, and various related fundraising vehicles\u2014rapidly professionalized and commercialized the originally grassroots fiscal-conservative uprising by relentlessly soliciting small-dollar donations from ordinary supporters through emotional direct-mail and email appeals that promised to back \u201ctrue\u201d candidates and causes.<\/p>\n

In practice, the vast majority of the tens of millions raised went to overhead, high consultant and vendor fees, lucrative salaries, media promotion deals, and further prospecting rather than to actual candidates, local organizing, or policy advocacy. A Politico analysis of 33 such PACs found that they raised $43 million from small donors but spent only $3 million on ads and candidate support against $39.5 million in operating expenses.<\/p>\n

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This diverted resources from authentic Tea Party chapters, eroded donor trust and grassroots energy, and ultimately fragmented and hollowed out the Tea Party into irrelevance. FreedomWorks, which raised over $23 million in the 2012 election cycle, had just $117,000 on hand by mid-2018, and Tea Party Express raised nothing at all in that cycle.<\/p>\n

Now:<\/strong> This is where the current campaign has a genuinely new front the Tea Party era lacked at scale: a cohort of formerly pro-Trump online figures\u2014Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and Nick Fuentes among them\u2014publicly breaking over Iran policy, the handling of the Epstein files, and unmet campaign promises, with Fuentes going so far as to declare \u201cMAGA is dead\u201d in November 2025 and Owens calling for invoking the 25th<\/sup> Amendment in April 2026.<\/p>\n

Whatever their individual motives, the practical effect mirrors what the establishment Republican achieved through funding in 2013\u201314. It fractures the coalition\u2019s public face and hands the \u201ceven conservatives agree\u201d line to hostile media coverage without the Democrat or the GOP establishment having to lift a finger.<\/p>\n

INDUSTRY AND K STREET: DEFEND THE ARRANGEMENT, NOT THE PARTY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then:<\/strong> The Chamber of Commerce\u2019s 2014 primary spending wasn\u2019t ideological; rather, it was a direct response to Tea Party fiscal hawks threatening the Export-Import Bank, trade deals, and appropriations riders the Chamber\u2019s members relied on.<\/p>\n

Now: <\/strong>MAHA\u2019s threat to agribusiness, ultraprocessed food, and pharmaceutical revenue models that were facilitated outside public scrutiny by the federal bureaucracy produced the same reflex from the same class of institutional actors. The difference this time is that the influence campaign came from inside a friendly administration rather than through an outside super PAC, which arguably makes it harder for the America First\/MAGA\/MAHA base to see or resist.<\/p>\n

WHY THE TWO CAMPAIGNS?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In short, to protect the automatic federal spending that was being threatened by both grassroots movements.<\/p>\n

Both the Tea Party and America First\/MAGA\/MAHA movements arrived after Washington had spent fifty years building a spending machine specifically engineered to run on autopilot, insulated from any single election. Each posed a direct threat to a different load-bearing piece of it.<\/p>\n

The Shift to Omnibus Spending Bills<\/strong><\/p>\n

The starting point is the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, passed to formalize congressional control over spending. The process it created has been broken almost from the start. Congress has passed every required appropriations bill on time in only four of the last nearly fifty years (FY1977, 1989, 1995, and 1997). In 13 of the last 15 fiscal years, lawmakers passed not a single spending bill by the 1 October statutory deadline. Since 1998, it has taken an average of 117 days into the fiscal year to get final spending law, and in 12 of the last 15 years every appropriations bill was folded into an after-deadline omnibus rather than debated individually.<\/p>\n

A 2,000-page bill negotiated by a handful of leadership staff in the final 48 hours and passed on a take-it-or-leave-it vote is functionally immune to line-item scrutiny by rank-and-file members, let alone interested voters, which is exactly why \u201csomething for everyone\u201d omnibus packages became the default vehicle rather than the emergency measure they were meant to be.<\/p>\n

Enter Continuing Resolutions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Continuing resolutions do the same work from the other direction. They auto-renew last year\u2019s numbers and remove any occasion to debate whether a given program should exist at all. Meanwhile, the debt ceiling has become a recurring, choreographed showdown in which a routine increase is treated as inevitable rather than as an actual check on borrowing (currently more than $40 trillion).<\/p>\n

Add Political Bribery and Its Protection Racket<\/strong><\/p>\n

Layered on top of all that is the money that financed the political class who benefit from that process. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002\u2014McCain-Feingold\u2014banned unlimited \u201csoft money\u201d contributions directly to parties and, in doing so, pushed the same money into 501(c)(4) nonprofits and, after the Citizens United<\/em> Supreme Court decision in 2010, into super PACs that don\u2019t have to disclose their donors. These PACs are \u201cdark money\u201d by statutory design rather than by accident!<\/p>\n

The FEC\u2014split evenly 3\u20133 by party\u2014was structurally built to deadlock rather than aggressively enforce campaign spending laws. And it does so routinely on the exact question of which non-PAC groups should have to disclose their donors, which the Brennan Center has called \u201cProbably the single greatest proximate cause of the ongoing surge in dark money in federal elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

A commission engineered to tie is not an oversight failure; it is oversight that was never supposed to happen.<\/p>\n

Integrate the Federal Bureaucracy into the Spending Machinery<\/strong><\/p>\n

That dark money machinery increasingly runs through the administrative state\u2019s own grantmaking apparatuses, not just election campaigns. Congressional testimony gathered in 2025 identified more than 35,000 nonprofits that receive a majority of their funding from federal agencies, with State Department and USAID grant pipelines singled out for funding NGOs that critics say recycle money back into the same political and personnel networks that authorized it. Officials who approve grants later join the NGOs they funded at high salaries while NGO-linked donors fund the campaigns of the officials who appropriate the next round of funding.<\/p>\n

A funding stream that never has to win a floor vote is largely shielded from appropriations riders and rewards insiders on both ends of the rigged process. This is exactly the kind of \u201cautomatic\u201d spending that both the Tea Party and America First\/MAGA\/MAHA movements were built to interrupt, if not terminate outright.<\/p>\n

This is what motivated the creation of DOGE. Unfortunately, the NGO and grant funding pipelines were vigorously defended by lawsuits and federal agency resistance such that DOGE essentially ran out of political gas after making headlines in exposing around $215 billion of the targeted cuts of $2 trillion. Fortunately, the President\u2019s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud\u00a0carries on the mission of DOGE.<\/p>\n

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

None of the spending mechanisms described in the previous section are particularly exotic or secret. Each was built, amended, or left unreformed by both parties over five decades, and each converts a piece of the public\u2019s money into something closer to a fixed cost that no single election can touch (which adds to the public\u2019s frustrations by design).<\/p>\n

That is the throughline: the Tea Party took aim at the omnibus\/CR machine and the agency (the IRS) enforcing compliance from the grassroots up. America First\/MAGA\/MAHA has taken aim at the NGO\/grant pipeline and the federal agencies like the State Department, USAID, and the EPA that are funding compliance from the top down.<\/p>\n

Both movements threatened to gum up the works and convert \u201cautomatic\u201d spending back into spending someone has to justify through regular order and fiscal debate in Congress\u2014which is exactly why the same institutional coalition assembled to stop both. Both movements represent existential threats to the interests feeding freely at the trough that is continuously being filled by U.S. taxpayers.<\/p>\n

The ongoing campaign to stop the America First\/MAGA\/MAHA coalition can only be thwarted by U.S. taxpayers\u2019 attention to this matter.<\/p>\n

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