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After six years of monthly meetings, discussions and debates on issues facing the community, state and nation, the Newport-Mesa Tea Party Patriots gathered for the last time on Thursday night in Costa Mesa.

The final meeting came just two days after arguably the greatest triumph for a national movement that has long battled the political establishment: the election of Donald Trump as the country's next president.

"We pretty much accomplished our goal we have an outsider as the president," local tea party leader and founder Tom Pollitt said Thursday. "So we feel pretty good about that."

The national tea party movement touts conservative principles such as smaller government, lower taxes and policies opposed to illegal immigration.

Pollitt told the crowd of about 60 people in the Halecrest Park clubhouse that the local tea party chapter is disbanding partly because he has decided to focus his attention elsewhere perhaps on starting a local Christian school.

It's possible, he said, that the group could be re-formed at some point.

"It was the tea party and the tea party movement throughout the country that made people aware that there was a problem, and it got them stirred up," Pollitt said. "The establishment was the problem, and now we've got somebody who is outside the establishment and we're going to have some real changes."

Several local, state and federal politicians spoke at the final meeting, including Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa), state Sen. John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa), Costa Mesa Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer, Newport Beach City Councilman Scott Peotter and Costa Mesa Councilman-elect Allan Mansoor.

The meeting was festive, with speakers and other attendees celebrating Republican Trump's triumph over Democrat Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's presidential election.

"What we've got now is a great opportunity to reach out to our fellow Americans and say, 'Give us a new chance in the Republican Party; give us a chance to show we are for working people in our country and we are first and foremost for the well-being of the United States,'" Rohrabacher said.

Peotter said the local tea party chapter "has been one of the few reliably conservative organizations in this area." He praised its members for supporting like-minded candidates.

Noting that Clinton beat Trump in Orange County, usually a Republican stronghold, he said: "How we're going to change and win back our county is to get out there and work. So keep up the good work, even though the tea party is no longer here."

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REACTIONS

California politicians had mixed reactions to Donald Trump's victory.

Jerry Brown California's Democratic governor called for unity following Trump's election.

"As President Lincoln said, 'A house divided against itself cannot stand,'" Brown said. "With the deep divisions in our country, it is incumbent on all of us especially the new leadership in Washington to take steps that heal those divisions, not deepen them."

"In California, we will do our part to find common ground whenever possible. But as Californians, we will also stay true to our basic principles. We will protect the precious rights of our people and continue to confront the existential threat of our time devastating climate change."

Alex Padilla California's secretary of state sharply criticized the addition of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a staunch opponent of illegal immigration, to Trump's transition team.

"Mr. Trump's selection of Kris Kobach to the immigration transition team sends a deeply troubling message that telegraphs an imminent assault on our collective voting rights and civil rights," Padilla said.

Ken Calvert "Throughout this campaign Donald Trump echoed the deep frustrations of many Americans about the lack of economic opportunities and the direction of our country," the Corona Republican congressman said.

"As President-elect Trump said ... now the real work must begin to enact the policies that will put our nation on a different path."

Is it a momentary release of anger? Or the start of something more?

That question lingers after a wave of protests in California and elsewhere against Donald Trumps victory Tuesday, Nov. 8 in the presidential election. Thousands on Wednesday and Thursday took to the streets to express their outrage about a candidate denounced by foes as a champion of racism, misogyny and homophobia.

Thousands protested in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other large U.S. cities. Protesters also rallied on college campuses nationwide.

Locally, a walking protest took place in downtown Riverside on Wednesday night and UC Riverside students planned to meet Thursday night to talk about protest plans. High schoolers Thursday walked out of classes in Montclair, San Gabriel and other Southern California schools.

Trumps underdog win over Hillary Clinton stunned her supporters as the real estate mogul and reality TV stars base of blue-collar whites outmatched Clintons coalition, which relied heavily on ethnic minorities. Republicans now control the White House, Congress and the majority of governorships and state legislatures.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, the tea party movement rose and lifted the GOP to a congressional majority while providing an organized, sustained resistance to the Democratic president. Will there be a tea party of the left, or will the spirit fueling this weeks protests fade in the course of the Trump administration?

Its too early to say, said Renee Van Vechten, a political science professor at the University of Redlands. The tea party, she said, didnt take shape until about a year after Obama took office and grew with the help of talk radio and clearly defined leaders.

Yelling isnt enough. You cannot sustain a scream for a long time. It dies down over time, she said. Anger has to be channeled.

Van Vechten drew a distinction between an explicity anti-Trump movement and general opposition to the new president.

For an actual movement to take shape, it would be distinguishable because it coalesces around a set of principles that the opposing party leaders (Democrats) either havent fully embraced, or because of policies that seem unachievable without their activism, she said.

Occupy Wall Street grew organically because it seemed to people that Democrats and Republican politicians were in bed with Wall Street, and change had to be forced by activism from outside the system. Same with the tea party movement.

WHICH TRUMP?

Mark Peterson, a professor at UCLAs Luskin School of Public Affairs, said the anti-Trump protests arent a flash in the pan.

We have never had a president-elect like Donald Trump, who in the course of his career and the campaign has done so much to be offensive to such a large range of groups, Peterson said.

Trumps actions as president will influence the intensity of his opposition, Peterson said.

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To understand the Trump victory, it is worthwhile to look at the backlash movement that prefigured Trumps rise: the Tea Party.

Six years ago, I wrote a book, with Harvard professor Theda Skocpol, about the rise of the Tea Party and its impact on American politics. We described the Tea Party movement as a loose coalition of three forces.

These forces were likely to persist, we argued, even as the Tea Party brand went into decline. And that has certainly proven the case. Last night, we witnessed the continued relevance of the Tea Party coalition.

Donald Trump was willing to address immigration in terms substantially more extreme than his primary opponents, and this allowed him to harness rank-and-file Republicans sense of cultural resentment and ethnic nationalism. It was anti-immigrant rhetoric that distinguished Trump from his opponents for the nomination, and it was negative perceptions of foreigners, not economic insecurity, that distinguished his primary supporters. And in the general election, despite widespread media attention to the white working class as a bastion of Trumpism, early evidence suggests that college educated whites also voted Trump yesterday. As with the Tea Party, analyses that explain this conservative reaction as anger at an unracialized status quo or elites are a whitewash.

Trump was also, of course, a master of manipulating the media, including conservative online networks and Fox News. It is worth remembering his role in promoting the insidious untruths regarding President Obamas birthplace; Trump found a home in conservative online networks that had long pushed ideas into broader conservative circles, and from there into mainstream political discourse. But Trump, the reality star, also demonstrated an understanding of the commercial media as a whole in a campaign season that lasts a year or more, networks were willing and even eager to provide an entirely unbalanced level of coverage to his eye-catching campaign.

It has been widely, and wrongly, implied that the Trump victory is somehow a defeat for the Koch brothers. The billionaires of the ideological right found their place in the Trump campaign exactly where it counts: on the issues. Trumps vice president, Mike Pence, will likely have tremendous policymaking latitude. As the New York Times reported a few months ago, candidates for the VP slot were offered the opportunity to be the most powerful vice president in history In charge of domestic and foreign policy. Pences ties to the Koch network are very extensive, and his policies including immense tax cuts so extreme they met with resistance even from Republicans are everything the Koch Brothers could ask for. At the same time, unified Republican control means that we should expect the federal budget to look like the proposals of Paul Ryan, another politician in the Koch orbit. Those familiar with the economic condition of Kansas, where the Koch brand extreme free-marketism has been given its fullest test, can predict the consequences for the United States as a whole.

Thus the Trump presidency is of a piece with the Tea Party movement that preceded it. But in two vital ways, President Trump will be a fundamental break with the conservative politics of the last eight years.

First, the Republican coalition in the post-Tea Party era had been united in opposition. Now, they have unified control of the federal government. Republicans have been very good at saying no to the Affordable Care Act, to raising the debt ceiling, to compromise. Achieving austerity by gridlock allowed Republicans to paper over the substantial ideological divide between the priorities of rank-and-file conservatives and free market elites. Those divisions may now become more prominent.

Second, and most important, is the role of Trump himself in his own Administration. Trump has shown little interest in public policy, and a lot of interest in punishing his perceived enemies. He has threatened to jail his political opponent, repudiated basic Constitutional protections, and called for the United States to commit war crimes. Whether Trump can be convinced, or obliged, to operate within the norms of liberal democracy remains an open question.

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One of the hopeful aspects of my Tea Party research was the commitment of the grassroots activists to local political organizing to the day-to-day grind of holding meetings, printing fliers, calling Congressmen, running for school board. In that sense, their work was part of a proud American tradition of small-scale everyday engagement, a style of democracy that has long been imagined to protect America against demagoguery and tyranny. That their work has empowered a genuinely anti-democratic leader is an irony, and a tragedy.

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Tea Party Overview

When you hear the words tea party, it automatically conjures images of the British gentry and the Victorian era. But today it is one of the most elegant and enjoyable parties you can throw for your friends. The endless conversation and stories over soothing cups of tea and delicious snacks is something that everyone enjoys.

You may think that you have a lot of time to prepare for the bash you are planning, but in truth you might not. Before everything else, you need to take care of these important details:

As your tea party draws near, you need to get down to the nitty gritty of the event. This is when you decide what tea and food to serve, how to decorate the place, and what favors to give.

It's always good to know the proper etiquette at any social gathering, and tea parties are the perfect occasion to apply what you know. Here are a few more party etiquettes you can add to your repertoire:

Can you smoke in a tea party? As the host, it is your decision to allow smoking during your tea party. However, you need to include it in your invitation so that your guests will not get offended if you stop them from smoking at the party. You can also set an area where the guests can smoke.

Can you invite pets to a tea party? If you have a pet of your own and you want your pet to be able to roam freely during the party, you can also allow guests to bring their pets. But it is recommended that pets be kept in another part of the venue to avoid them causing discomfort to your guests. Also, it could be possible that someone is allergic to pet hairs or smell so be sure to consider that as well when planning your tea party.

How do I conduct myself at a tea party? Since it's a tea party you should have a variety of tea to serve. The most common are Earl Grey, Darjeeling, and Green Tea. You could always serve some fruit-flavored tea or mint tea to add variety and keep your party interesting.

What is the appropriate tea party favors to give? For tea parties, be sure to give out tea themed favors to your guests in honor of the occasion. Need ideas? Check out our unique selection of tea party favors where you can choose from several traditional as well as trendy tea favors.

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