A reader doesn't think so:

I suspect your obit for Occupy is a bit premature.  To compare Occupy's immediate impact to the Tea Party somewhat ignores very fundamental differences in these organizations.  The Tea Party, for all its outsider grassroots credentials, was largely organized by established Washington power brokers.  These were people with a specific agenda and were looking to operate within the traditional political system.  The Tea Party was made up of a demographic that was older and more a part of establishment politics to begin with. Occupy, on the other hand, is a far more genuinely grass roots organization made up of a much younger crowd.