The Tea Party was at the WWII memorial in 2013 when the vets decided to re-open it during 0bama’s govt furlough. Even then the Tea Party was a shadow of their former selves.
Side note: seeing the vets take the flimsy barricades down at the WWII memorial and depositing them in front of the white house was both inspiring and reminiscent (?) of some of the current demonstrations around the world.
I was there in 2013
The event scared the hell out of the Democrats.
The event provoked massive opposition that was unopposed.
A similar process is ongoing. There is no willingness to oppose the Democrat creation of a January 6 insurrection and the prohibition of Americans and especially conservatives from gathering on the Mall.
If conservatives were worth a damn they would assemble on the Mall in spite of the Capital Police gestapo
“but that’s not who we are” is the wimpy reply