Does Trump's rise prove the tea party was about race?

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Guys, if you're arguing that the only way racially-motivated voting manifests itself is whether you vote for a black or a white guy then you're being incredibly obtuse. The fact is that Trump ran a campaign founded and centered on white racial resentment. Romney did not, McCain did not.

-Interesting, then, that Trump lost so many of Romney's White voters in the Deep South and gained so many Obama voters in states that went for Lincoln.

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I think the fact that the TEA PARTY DOMINATED GOP nominated first ROMNEY and then TRUMP proves . . . that Jonathon Chait should stay away from analyzing Republican politics.

-The Tea Party first nominated Santorum and Gingrich, not Romney.

Santorum and Gingrich were never nominated.    I was being ironical.