Dems still trying to manufacture their own "Tea Party" candidates
…. Much like the Republican men and women who swept into Washington in the 2010 Tea Party wave, the majority of Democratic candidates are new to state-level or national politics. Unlike the Tea Party, many of these Democrats have a long record of public service. They are former public prosecutors, doctors, CIA
These are what the Democratic Party's version of "outsiders" look like in 2017.
The Democratic Party wants individuals who can't be tarred as career politicians or party insiders….
via legalinsurrection.com
This narrative of the Party recruiting "outsiders" is the exact opposite of the Tea Party movement.
Tea Party candidates weren't recruited by the GOP, they were savaged every bit as viciously by the party establishment as by Democrats. Tea Party candidates won because grassroots support overcame party opposition, not because they were recruited by the party to appear to be outsiders.
The Resistance has done a good job at opposing Trump, but that will not easily translate into electoral victories using party-recruited "outsider" candidates running in the shadow of Antifa.
