[I want the USA back]

In the history books “Tea Party” once was a patriotic thing - a populist movement of resistance to tyrranical ways.
Today’s Tea Party is a patriotic thing - a populist movement of resistance to tyrranical ways.
OH - the left can’t have that! To them, the modern Tea Party is the worst thing that happened - they have to demonize it.

[No Socialist]

“In the history books “Tea Party” once was a patriotic thing - a populist movement of resistance to tyrranical ways.
Today’s Tea Party is a patriotic thing - a populist movement of resistance to tyrranical ways.”

I do believe you nailed it.