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  • 10 - Conclusion

  • Patrick Rafail, Tulane University, Louisiana, John D. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    The Rise, Fall, and Influence of the Tea Party Insurgency
    Published online:
    07 December 2023
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023, pp 194-202

  • Summary

    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.