When I heard that President Trump had agreed to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's demand that he lift the debt ceiling for the last three months of the year and possibly eliminate it altogether, I thought how Tea Partiers would have reacted if President Obama had made such a deal with Pelosi and Harry Reid or, for that matter, John Boehner/Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. Tea Partiers would have been apoplectic. We would have been greeted to gales of anger about the swamp and bankrupting the country.
But since it was Trump who made the deal it's fine. As far as they are concerned Trump is a great deal maker. It doesn't matter that the substance of the deal isn't different than what we saw during the Obama Administration. It doesn't matter that Pelosi & Schumer drove this deal and did circles around Trump. If Trump does something it's automatically good. If Trump decided to give the DREAMers amnesty the Tea Partiers would be OK with it. If Trump decided to introduce single payer the Tea Partiers would be OK with it.
As someone who addressed several Tea Party rallies it is disheartening to know they didn't mean a word they said. They opposed Obama for the sake of opposing Obama and nothing more. Of course, Trump's core support goes beyond the Tea Party universe. But what it amounts to is a cult of personality which worships at the altar of Trump. It's no different than the Left which knelt before Obama. Both sides worship false idols. The danger in that is when false idols tell you to jump off a cliff there is seldom anyone around to ask where the parachutes are being kept. And those who around to ask questions are likely to be thrown off first.
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