Given the massive coalition created to bring President Donald J Trump back into office, it is natural to sense some trepidation about influences that may pull the pragmatic presidency in opposing directions. Factually, we would not be human if we did not experience some form of nervous anticipation at this critical juncture for our nation.
The ten-year-old MAGA community 2015-2025 is rooted in the Tea Party grassroots movement that preceded it many years before 2009-2015.
The lessons of Republican betrayal and UniParty corruptive influences that manipulated the Tea Party in order to protect the status quo from the disruption we represented are visible and emotional scars. Through the years, We The People fought the bastards, won some, lost some, gained some ground and lost some again.
Each battle against the corrupt machinery hidden behind the Potemkin village called DC revealed so much. From the ground in Virginia where we won for McDonnell, then to New Jersey and onward to Massachusetts in the cold December of ’09, we knew then it was going to be hard, yet we knew nothing about how hard it would actually be. We just knew it had to be done.
Following our massive and unprecedented victory in the 2010 midterm shellacking, we stood in disbelief watching Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican apparatus respond to our movement by viewing us through the prism of threat. We represented a new era and DC saw the pragmatic conservative movement as a threat to their traditional power structure. Leadership attacked the very movement that gave them power.
After a few years of disappointment, open betrayal, frustration and anguish, we again dug deep and began reassembling, only this time with a different voice and a leader, Donald Trump. The MAGA movement originates from those core Tea Party grassroots activists who stood in the cold and said, “enough!”


