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It didn’t infiltrate the system. It is the system.

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It is now. The tea party started as an outside movement.

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Did it, though?

An Astroturf campaign is a fake grassroots movement: it purports to be a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, but in reality it is founded and funded by elite interests.

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I think you desperately need to believe it was astroturfed, because otherwise it would too starkly contrast with the absolute failure of Leftism.

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