If they get activated and a race gets defined in a way that speaks to them, they can spring to life.”Īnti-establishment conservatives won 12 of 13 leadership party positions in Warren County last week, the same day House majority leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., lost his primary race to a tea party opponent. ![]() ![]() “Reports of their death are highly exaggerated,” said David Niven, a political science professor at the University of Cincinnati, of the tea party. Warrick’s transformation from the “silent majority” to outspoken political dissident is part of a national movement of tea party-aligned conservatives whose resurgent power shows they remain a political force to be reckoned with. Today, he finds himself at the helm of the Warren County Republican Party, the face of a growing movement of anti-big government conservatives in one of Ohio’s most Republican-rich counties. Fve years ago, Ray Warrick was just an ordinary guy, dutifully showing up at the polls and voting down-the-line Republican while fuming over taxes and yelling at the news from his living room couch.
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