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    1 个月前

    even with astroturfing

    That’s basically the point though, right? Without astroturfing the tea party probably wouldn’t have grown into maga. Compare the occupy wall st movement (as mentioned below)-- there was no corporate backing so it fizzled as soon as popular support couldn’t sustain it. But money kept pumping into the tea party and it eventually metastasized into maga.