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What is the current status of the Tea Party?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Pa...Current_status

Several commentators, including Jonathan Chait,[159] Jenny Beth Martin,[160][161] and Sarah Palin, argued that the Tea Party played a key role in the election of Donald Trump as the Republican Party presidential nominee, and eventually as U.S. president, and that Trump's election was even the culmination of the Tea Party and anti-establishment dissatisfaction associated with it. Martin stated after the election that "with the victory of Donald Trump, the values and principles that gave rise to the tea party movement in 2009 are finally gaining the top seat of power in the White House."[161]

On the other hand, other commentators, including Paul H. Jossey,[162] a conservative campaign finance attorney, and Jim Geraghty of the conservative National Review,[163] believed that the Tea Party to be dead or in decline. Jossey, for example, argued that the Tea Party "began as an organic, policy-driven grass-roots movement" but was ultimately "drained of its vitality and resources by national political action committees that dunned the movement's true believers endlessly for money to support its candidates and causes."[162]