{"id":323561,"date":"2026-08-17T23:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323561\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:32:18","slug":"analyst-comparison-between-tea-party-dsa-is-imperfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323561\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst: Comparison between Tea Party, DSA is &#8216;imperfect&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, moderate Republicans were taken by surprise by the endurance and strength of the Tea Party.<\/p>\n<p>According to Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson in Monday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/17\/opinion\/el-sayed-ocasio-cortez-mamdani-sanders.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>, the Tea Party saw an alignment of the party\u2019s true believers with its older, more reliable voters<\/p>\n<p>That has yet to happen with the Democrats and what has been described as their version of the Tea Party, the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Capital Tonight discussed the comparison with Jack O\u2019Donnell, managing partner of O\u2019Donnell &amp; Associates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2009, moderate Republicans were taken by surprise by the endurance and strength of the Tea Party. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,202,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,201,200],"class_list":["post-323561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-susan-arbetter","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}