In a country with informed population "look, they were willing to default on country's financial obligations to get their way" would be a death kneel to any party.

As to TP, here is my anecdote. A friend of mine was early TP activist/organizer. She distanced herself after 'big money' moved in, she tells me as soon as money started pouring in some expensive PR folks started running the show. According to her, her neck-of-the-woods TP now is 100% astroturf.

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