Tea Party

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• 12/11/2022
  

  The Selective Appropriation of Christopher Gadsden's Famous Flag

  by Jordan Baker

  The Gadsden Flag originally symbolized the unity of the American colonies against oppression by the Crown and Parliament. It's an irony of history that the symbol has been adopted by some who reject centralized authority. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/10/2021
  

  How the Far Right Weaponized America’s Democratic Roots

  by Joe Lowndes

  By steering away from overt white nationalism, the far right is able to engage a politics of white innocence and portray themselves as heirs to America's revolutionary heritage.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  2/8/2021
  

  The Forces That Stopped Obama’s Recovery Will Not Stop Biden’s

  by Jonathan Chait

  Has the bipartisan Washington elite preoccupation with budget deficits faded since the Obama Administration's troubled efforts to promote economic recovery in 2009? Will austerity wreck Biden's goals too? Jon Chait says that moment has passed. 

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• 4/30/2020
  

  Right-Wing Protests Intensify over COVID Closures

  by HNN Staff

  The Michigan legislature has closed its session due to the threat of armed mobs at the state capitol. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/21/2020
  

  The Quiet Hand of Conservative Groups in the Anti-Lockdown Protests

  Groups in a loose coalition have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals and financed lawsuits, polling and research to combat the stay-at-home orders.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  4/19/2020
  

  What the Anti-Stay-At-Home Protests Are Really About

  They’re part of a Trumpian strategy from some conservative groups to reshape public opinion.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  5-30-17
  

  Tea Party Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) says liberal historians have ignored the role of Anti-Federalist Founding Fathers

  by Mike Lee

  What the historians forget is "the essential truth that underlies a full understanding of the Constitution: the fact that nearly every founder shared a healthy skepticism of a large federal bureaucracy."

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  4-6-16 (accessed)
  

  The Secret Origins of the Tea Party

  by Jeff Nesbit

  How big oil and big tobacco partnered with the Koch brothers to take over the GOP.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  9-1-14
  

  The Original Tea Partier Was an Atheist

  by Matthew Stewart

  Remembering America's forgotten founding father.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-12-14
  

  The South’s Lesson for the Tea Party

  by Curtis Wilkie

  We remember the dangers of nativism and populist rebellion.

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• SOURCE: University of Notre Dame
  7-18-14
  

  Tea Party support linked to educational segregation, new study shows

  "Acceptance or rejection of the Tea Party's views on the government's role in redistributing wealth is shaped, to a large degree, by the extent to which those who have benefited from higher education are set apart in their daily lives from those who have not."

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5-22-14
  

  Yale-educated history professor is Nebraska's GOP candidate for US Senate and a Tea Party conservative

  by Heather Digby Parton

  "Ben Sasse believes that our right to the free exercise of religion is co-equal to our right to life."--Ben Sasse website

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• 4-11-14
  

  The Tea Party's Weird Ideas About the Original Tea Party (Interview)

  by Ron Formisano

  The differences between the original Tea Party and the current Tea Party that borrows its name.

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• SOURCE: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
  Winter 2014
  

  Why the Tea Party’s Hold Persists

  by Theda Skocpol

  Pundits keep predicting the Tea Party's demise, but it never sticks. Here's why.

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• SOURCE: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
  Winter 2014
  

  The Anti-Jacksonians

  by Sean Wilentz

  Historical analogies are oft imperfect, and the Tea Party=Jacksonian Democrats meme is more imperfect than most.

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• SOURCE: Alternet
  11-14-13
  

  Sorry, Tea Partyers: Religious Right Rooted in Radical Progressivism

  by Ira Chernus

  How quickly Christian evangelicals forget their movement has a long history of demanding government intervention.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-5-13
  

  The Decline of the Tea Party

  by Bruce Bartlett

  There are signs of a pushback.

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  11-2-13
  

  Is The Tea Party Really All About Alger Hiss?

  by Walter Russell Mead

  Hiss is the quintessential liberal establishment elite (and closet communist).

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• SOURCE: Center for American Progress
  10-31-13
  

  The Tea Party’s Forebears Are a Movement of the Rich

  by Eric Alterman

  The Tea Party has roots that date back to the passage of the income tax amendment.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10-27-13
  

  The Tea Party is Going Down. Dysfunction is Not.

  by John B. Judis

  Right-wing populism could hobble America for decades.