Is the Nebraska abolition of the death penalty a blow to the Tea Party? I will say yes.
Nebraska conservatives voted to override unsubstantiated belief, the hallmark of the Tea Party's effort to save the last century, with rationale facts and evidence.
It is a trend. We will see more conservatives and Republicans acceding to the 21st century and starting to base their arguments and positions more on facts and evidence rather than unsubstantiated belief systems that have little or nothing to do with reality.
That does not mean conservatives and Republicans won't be conservative and Republican. It simply means that the debate changes. And the inevitable aspects of this century, like gay marriage, marijuana laws, health care, minimum wages, and trains - - will be mutually agreed upon by a majority of both parties (never by right wingers) by 2020.
NineShift predicts, once again, that at the end of the 2016 presidential campaign that the Tea Party will have been marginalized, and that by 2020 the Tea Party will be an historical phenomenon, and little more.
Yes, Nebraska helped kill the Tea Party this year.
A packed church of people opposed to the death penalty this spring in Nashville.
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