The Bastardization of the Tea Party

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The Bastardization of the Tea Party

davenj1 // Posted at 7:00 pm on October 27, 2016 by davenj1

 

The Tea Party wing of the GOP was a fiscal movement and protest against an encroaching and enlarged federal government that started soon after the inauguration of Barack Obama. In reality, it had it roots in the Bush administration in response to the proposed TARP program. Some (many) on the Left characterized it as racist since the new president was black and it seemed to them not a reaction against his policies, but the man. Had the faces changed, however, there still would have been a movement whether Hillary Clinton or John McCain succeeded.

 

Overall, it was a decentralized movement with no set agenda and there begins the problems. Had it remained a strictly fiscally conservative movement, it would have likely survived stronger than the state it now finds itself in. Upon his inauguration, Obama embarked on a radically leftist agenda best epitomized by Rahm Emannuel’s suggestion that no crisis go to waste. Besides expanding the scope of the unpopular TARP, he attempted and failed at cap-and-trade legislation, but succeeded at nationalization of the domestic auto industry and health care reform.