The Tea Party, Trump, and the Loss of a Great Patriot

I was in the paint department. I placed the color sample next to the vase I had brought from home. “Excuse me, ma'am. Do these colors match? My wife says I'm colorblind.” She replied, “Yes.” Then she said, “Lloyd? You are Lloyd, right?” It was Lisa Feroli, one of the originators of the Orlando Tea Party. We had not seen each other since 2009. After catching up a bit, Lisa made a few interesting comments about the Tea Party movement. Not as active as she once was, Lisa feels that some of the passion is gone. She said the movement was started by and should have remained controlled by We the People. Lisa said that unfortunately, politicians were allowed to worm their way in, citing a rally at which RINO John Boehner spoke. Lisa feels, and I concur, that too many people made the movement about them. However, I do not think opportunists jumping on the Tea Party bandwagon did any serious damage to the movement.