While the “establishment” managed to “marginalize” the Tea Party movement for more than a decade, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., says President Donald Trump’s revitalized Make America Great Again movement has given the Tea Party Patriots validation, new life, and a voice again.

“The Tea Party sort of went dormant or atrophied after 2014, ’15, ’16, until Trump came on the scene,” Sen. Johnson told The Hill. “And he reignited it in a different form.”

The senator gave his first speech at a Tea Party rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 2009, but its movement was squelched and turned into a “pejorative” for its opposition to the Obama administration and its policies, he said.

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