Raymond Smith, PPI senior fellow, was interviewed by Ross Reynolds of KUOW-Seattle on the Tea Party’s waning influence.
Smith made it clear that the Tea Party was declining, but not gone yet. He explained that in the long run, the Tea Party wasn’t a sustainable party in the U.S. two-party system, like many others fringe parties. It is more like a political movement, an anti-system party without any chance to take power:
In a two-party system, either it gets control of one of the two major parties, or it burns itself out.”
Listen to the entire KUOW-FM interview here.
