On April 15 this year, Tea Party Patriots, one of the largest tea party groups, will sponsor "Stop Socialism, Choose Freedom" rallies across the country.
One reason tea partiers aren't "Outside protesters" today is that many of the citizens who never before had been involved in politics rose to prominence in the Republican Party.
"Tea party activists are not meeting outside the party system any longer," Brendan Steinhauser, a former FreedomWorks staffer who was the lead organizer for the Taxpayer March on Washington on Sept. 12, 2009, told The Daily Signal.
The modern tea party movement largely is credited to an on-air rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli, who on Feb. 9, 2009, called for Americans to have a "Tea party" protest.
Santelli's comments went viral and about 35,000 people in 50 cities attended the first-ever tea party rallies on Feb. 27, 2009.
"It is the legacy of the tea party movement that more people elected to Congress now understand and champion constitutional principles."
The three biggest successes for the tea party movement, Pye said, have been winning 63 House seats to retake the majority in 2010; winning passage of the Budget Control Act that led to more than $1 trillion in savings; and, because it stemmed from a Republican majority achieved with tea party backing, passing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/14/10-years-after-first-rallies-whats-the-legacy-of-the-tea-party/
One reason tea partiers aren't "Outside protesters" today is that many of the citizens who never before had been involved in politics rose to prominence in the Republican Party.
"Tea party activists are not meeting outside the party system any longer," Brendan Steinhauser, a former FreedomWorks staffer who was the lead organizer for the Taxpayer March on Washington on Sept. 12, 2009, told The Daily Signal.
The modern tea party movement largely is credited to an on-air rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli, who on Feb. 9, 2009, called for Americans to have a "Tea party" protest.
Santelli's comments went viral and about 35,000 people in 50 cities attended the first-ever tea party rallies on Feb. 27, 2009.
"It is the legacy of the tea party movement that more people elected to Congress now understand and champion constitutional principles."
The three biggest successes for the tea party movement, Pye said, have been winning 63 House seats to retake the majority in 2010; winning passage of the Budget Control Act that led to more than $1 trillion in savings; and, because it stemmed from a Republican majority achieved with tea party backing, passing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/14/10-years-after-first-rallies-whats-the-legacy-of-the-tea-party/
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