After eight years of trying to bring down Washington elites, the populist movement finds itself in an unfamiliar position: holding the levers of power. If this was a Trump-era reprise of the tea party, it was a distinctly less energized one than eight years ago, when a horseback “Paul Revere” delighted a huge crowd of self-described patriots outside the Georgia Capitol.
Tea party’s bid to ‘make the establishment great again’
