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Understanding the Tea Party Movement (Paperback, New Ed)
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Understanding the Tea Party Movement (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
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Hailing themselves as heirs to the American Revolution, the Tea
Party movement staged tax day protests in over 750 US cities in
April 2009, quickly establishing a large and volatile social
movement. Tea Partiers protested at town hall meetings about health
care across the country in August, leading to a large national
demonstration in Washington on September 12, 2009. The movement
spurred the formation (or redefinition) of several national
organizations and many more local groups, and emerged as a strong
force within the Republican Party. Self-described Tea Party
candidates won victories in the November 2010 elections. Even as
activists demonstrated their strength and entered government, the
future of the movement's influence, and even its ultimate goals,
are very much in doubt. In 2012, Barack Obama, the movement's prime
target, decisively won re-election, Congressional Republicans were
unable to govern, and the Republican Party publicly wrestled with
how to manage the insurgency within. Although there is a long
history of conservative movements in America, the library of social
movement studies leans heavily to the left. The Tea Party movement,
its sudden emergence and its uncertain fate, provides a challenge
to mainstream American politics. It also challenges scholars of
social movements to reconcile this new movement with existing
knowledge about social movements in America. Understanding the Tea
Party Movement addresses these challenges by explaining why and how
the movement emerged when it did, how it relates to earlier
eruptions of conservative populism, and by raising critical
questions about the movement's ultimate fate.
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