This is the worst show ever aired.

“The Pentagon is a big building. You can’t levitate it”

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. - John Kenneth Galbraith

They were entirely wrong. They, being the fake news media and the uniparty socialists. We're still the Tea Party, also known as MAGA.

Show would have done better if the audience could've suspend their disbelief of a well-meaning and honorable press corps...

the absolute hilarity of people trying to compare stuff from west wing and newsroom to trump gets me every time. everyone who thinks trump is some far right wing crazy guy just show how little they know of politics. trump is a 90s democrat. all his policies and talking points are from 90s democrats. that is because that is who he hung out with when he became largely successful. trump is not right wing, he is center-left, and successfully competing as a republican. think about that for a while... you think trump is right wing, or far right, are not paying attention to him, or do not know even the recent history of politics for the US. democrats in the 80s and 90s were against expanding immigration because even then they knew it drove down the wages of everyone from the upper middle class on down. then wall street said, hey, maybe if we gave to democrats AND republicans, we can get more of what we want enacted as law. it turns out, democrats were starving for money and when that shift happened in the late 90s and early 2000s with the war on terror, it turns out democrats were very receptive to wall streets message, especially on illegal immigrants.

I've read the Tea Party was started by the Koch brothers; hardly a middle class grassroots movement.

1:00 ummm

here's the only disagreement i'll make with this assessment: the tea party is exactly what republicans were creating with all of their terrible policies. it wasn't shocking, it was inevitable.

Well, look what the tea party has evolved into.

Yes a bunch of hippies went to the Pentagon and seriously thought they could levitate it.

Post 2024 election anyone?

Saying the tea party movement was a middle class movement is being very charitable. It wasn’t spontaneous. It was planned by the wealthy.

and here in 2024. the "tea party" is the left side ...... The machine is always the same just move to the winning party (now lost, and the machine will try to move back to right after this)

Fucking A, it's like a prophecy'

Literally no republican has ever watched this show and thought Will was a republican

It’s amazing how many of these comments are unaware that the tea party won senate and house control in 2010, and took over the Republican Party fully well before Trump became President. That’s literally how Mitch McConnell rose to power in 2010 when the tea party won the midterms. It’s appalling how the majority of the population are unaware of such an event

1:54 Something about the cheeks-blowing-out pronunciation of "obliterated" has always been really satisfying to me.

This could be true even now, just replace TEA party with MAGA.

And in 2024, the WORST version of this story came true. America is well and truly fucked.

Watching this after the 2024 election...

Because it ''looks right'' Joe Biden is going to give the Nuclear Codes to Trump without a fight. They are actually going to allow this Convicted Felon BACK into the oval office because he's been able to elude law enforcement and pay the right people and threaten the rest. They're going to let him back in.

And now a dipshit will be president again

All the comments about Trump here are woefully missing the point. Trump as a candidate is actually further to the left of most traditional Republicans. The Tea party in the clip was dangerous because they were using extreme versions of the initial policy positions that made these parties popular in the first place, and that much more aptly describes where we standing with the left right now. People like RFK, Gabbert, and to a lesser degree Bernie Sanders being chased out of relevancy or the party all together for failing the new left purity test in policy is EXACTLY what is happening in this clip to the right.

The Tea party was an attempt to bring cohesion and direction and vision to a party that was seemingly becoming irrelevant during the Obama era. They did radicalize the party and just look at the fruits of that radicalization, they have sent the Dems scrambling for the last 3 election cycles. It can't be overstated what a massive success the tea party was for Republicans. Democrats had their own "tea party" movement that was an authentic populist left wing economic movement in 2016 that delivered vision and passion to a party absent of vision post-Obama era, but the DNC and party elites snuffed it out in its cradle in the name of protecting the donor and consultant class and party leadership.

12 years later ...

The Tea Party was a racist response to a half black president. If the tea party was serious about government spending, they would have eaten Trump for dinner.

November 2024, still relevant. More room to the right being found, the radicalization continues, and people scared shitless still

No matter how smart Will is, Charlie was always able to pull his strings! 😂

Guess the plant from Little Shop of Horrors was having none of it.

The tea party won

Well, the plant from little shop of horrors just ate the American presidencyand the Senate and I'm scared shitless

And here we are the night before the 2024 election... and I'm scared shitless

Top story everynoght until the people who think dofferently are sufficiently viewed the exact way i view everything, because as a very wealthy person woth influence i know everything

Whoever wrote this is a fucking time traveler or prophet or some shit

And now they are MAGA.

i wish i understood anything about this?

If this show still ran, it'd just be 40 minutes of Will in a padded room with a straight jacket, repeatedly muttering "what the fuck is going on"

meanwhile Obama was cozy cozy will Bill Ayers and.... bernadeen dorn...

And he gets called a rhino or a secret liberal for voicing legitimate criticism

Really explains Trump, five years before he ran for the first time.

liberals have the dumbest analysis, the tea party was never genuine or grass root. It is the most obvious astroturfed movement that appeared in American politics

liberals have the dumbest analysis, the tea party was never genuine or grass root. It is the most obvious astroturfed movement that appeared in American politics

God this show was awesome

News flash boys and girls, our economic system is based on free enterprise and capitalism...unfortunately, our educational system is run by socialists (as are our churches), who teach "love what you do". Money is the most important thing, anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you. Those with the money, make the rules. Don't like that, move to a socialists country, their people come here for a better life!

I’ve always said this: there are wackos on the right, and there are wackos on the left, but the only difference is that the wackos on the right are in office.

The writing for show superb

This clip literally predicted the rise of MAGA approximately 4 years before it happened.

"Trial of the Chicago 7" is a movie that came out in 2021 depicting Ruben/Hoffman/Hayden and all those guys who Jeff Daniels was talking about here back during the Vietnam War. Such a cool story and impeccable film. I recommend it

Convenient how he left out that the whole damn thing was funded by the Koch brothers.