How to fight the Tea party

Any one who knows history knows that the semi Libertarian/ tea party agenda has already been tried in this country. It was called the 19th century and it was bad enough that our nation united to pass the Progressive legislation that gave us child-labor laws, inspected food ( how ever imperfectly) and what Natural , protected land as exists in our national parks and monuments. We had an activist Supreme Court that struck down any law passed that helped workers until Roosevelt forced some sense into it with his court packing plan. Would the Tea activist argue it was better then? I think for women, Blacks, First Nations and anyone who worked 18 hours a day in the factories with no safety net if one got injured, it was maybe not the good old days.