Recent news of FreedomWorks shutting its doors has prompted several observers, including at National Review, to declare the Tea Party “dead.” These voices are wrong. The Tea Party movement has, of course, always been larger than any one organization and even any one ideology — like “libertarian” — or one moniker, like “Tea Party” itself. The movement is simply in the process of evolving from a cause born of the issues of 2008 and 2009 into one focused on the challenges of today.
The idea that the Republican grassroots has abandoned the limited-government and free-enterprise principles at the heart of the movement — a popular belief among wannabe populists who seek to grow government and people who rarely, if ever, leave the Washington Beltway to spend time with actual grassroots activists — is nonsense.
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