GOV 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Nuclear Proliferation, Rand Paul, Tea Party Movement
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Historically, the tea party began in 1773 with the historic boston tea party revolt to. The modern tea party movement began in february 2009 in order to protest taxpayer- financed bailouts of mortgage defaulters. Rapidly shook up american politics and contributed to the wave of anti-big-government sentiment in 2010. The tea party is widely debated, has no central organizing leader, and is therefore hard to pin down when thinking about political costs or gains that have come specifically from the party. The modern tea party movement is best understood as a contemporary revolt of. Jacksonian common sense against political elites although these new jacksonians may not gain full control of the government, the populist ideals that they represent are always present in american culture. Embrace a set of strong nationalist ideas firm belief in american exceptionalism and. Us, but they do not believe that us interests are best served by the creation of a liberal and cosmopolitan world order.
