Rand Paul declares Tea Party dead, and he’s absolutely right

By Jack Hunter

Published July 31, 2019 11:45pm ET

Rand Paul declares Tea Party dead, and he’s absolutely right — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walks to the Senate as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

In 2011, I had the honor of helping Sen. Rand Paul write The Tea Party Goes to Washington, a blueprint for the burgeoning fiscally conservative grassroots movement that had began to define the right.

On Wednesday, Paul declared that movement dead.

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