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New lessons for progressives — from the far right | Opinion

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Progressives shouldn’t just be fighting the GOP : we should be learning from them, writes Julian Zelizer .

The far right took control of the Republican Party over a decade ago and forced the entire Conservative establishment to lurch so far to the Right that they’ve even dumped people like Liz Cheney and George W. Bush .

Zelizer: Progressives need to get to work right now to do exactly what the Tea Party did a decade and a half ago to take power.

In 2011 , motivated by the efforts of people like the Concord Project , the Tea Party (which has now mostly morphed into MAGA ) had swept in to fill the gaps: They’d filled up the Republican Party . And we saw the results of the Precinct Committee takeover first in 2012 and most recently last month : the GOP is now being driven largely from the bottom up by activists.

Progressives need to do the same thing, only within the Democratic Party ..

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