It’s 2009 again, or feels like it.
The tea party that was so powerful in the Obama years, roiling Republican Party politics and making stars out of the likes of Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, sputtered out and was subsumed by the Trump movement in 2016. The change was exemplified by the House Freedom Caucus, founded in 2015 and defined by its hard line on government spending, reliably lining up behind Donald Trump who has pursued a notably expansionary fiscal policy—with huge budget deficits—even before the coronavirus crisis.
One of its architects, the editor of the religious journal First Things, R.R. Reno, has sounded like one of the libertarians he so scorns during the crisis. First, he complained that he might get shamed if he were to host a dinner party during the height of the pandemic, although delaying a party would seem a small price to pay for someone so intensely committed to the common good.
What’s happened during the lockdowns is that the natural distrust that populists have of experts has expressed itself in opposition to government rules. Being told what to do by epidemiologists and government officials wielding all-caps SCIENCE as their authority has been enough to bring tea party-era liberty back in vogue.
Yes, Tea Party overlaps with CV right wing rioters. Yes they'll make noise with President Biden. Article denies their primary motivation: hostility towards those they consider others. In 09 recession hit minorities poor, young so they hated govt help. CV hits cities, same result
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Freedumb!
The right-wing likes to label Soro's as the left's oligarch, I wonder who can we label as the rights money backer?
They will 'protest' whatever for the cash...
You mean the American Taliban.
These 'protests' are a distant second tonight.
That's not tea party. That's morons being manipulated into hitching their political identity to a refusal to be responsible.
Are you kidding? These protesters haven't shut up since 2009.
The tea party turned out to be a racist party. These are their KKK.
The main biz in usa is politics
They dont know their asses from a hole in the ground. Protesters now incite violence. Lockdown violence.
Odds are these are the same groups and many of the same people. They seem to be protesting in the same places as before.
‘Free-dumb!’
The tea party is just the KKK without the hoods.
The protestors are funded by special interest groups who want to manufacture a revolt to pressure governors to open states up quickly. This is not 2009.
no analogy. Then they didnt understand the ACA and it was not something that would physically protect them, Now they protesting actions taken to safeguard their health very lives and lives and health of others
Just a simple question. Why POTUS selected by the people always fail the people? Should I come to the conclusion that the PEOPLE is st***d and democracy here in the US is a simple disaster?
they're coming full circle.. this is a ctually the death of the tea party
Astroturfing at its worst.
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