An independent progressive movement?

[TheKentuckian]

12. I think there is some refusal to accept that the Tea Party is just a Republican commissioned,

organized, and funded branding and political framing campaign.

There will be no 100,000 watt blowtorch radio stations pushing a similar effort on the left, there will be no party dominated and trusted news network pimping it, there will be no billionaire funders, no bus tours, no fake quivering from the opposition party, and perhaps most critically there will not be party professional organizers up to and including a former Speaker of the House helping to make it happen.

There is no way to replicate the dynamic here. The insurrection aspect is phenomenally overstated, the party woodshed to be more regressive and reactionary or at least a significant share of their "elites" did and do.
The thing may have gotten a little wild and occasionally out of control but overall it can't be called anything but successful, probably beyond the wildest dreams of the plotters considering the depths right wingery had fallen intro with Bush junior.