Tag: Tea Party

Associated PressMarch 6, 2016
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7min252
Republicans can blame their united stand against President Barack Obama for their party’s splintering. Conservatives’ gut-level resistance to all things Obama — the man, his authority, his policies — gave birth to the tea party movement that powered the GOP to political success in multiple states and historic congressional majorities. Yet contained in the movement […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 29, 2016
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5min217
As my friend Chris Turner might remember, my New Year’s resolution from a few years ago was, simply, “More friends, less enemies.” Unlike so many of the resolutions I’ve made to lose weight or stop eating so much salt (or both) this one sort of stuck. At least I think it did. I know I’ve worked at […]

Melissa RossOctober 2, 2015
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3min293
It’s billed as the first book that examines the Tea Party’s successful “primary” campaign against what the movement has dubbed Republicans in Name Only (RINOs). (Another, less flattering nickname is cuckservative, but that’s a story for another day.) UNF political science professor Ron Libby argues that 2016 is the year the Tea Party has moved […]


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