"In the late summer of 2009, as the recession-ravaged economy bled half a million jobs a month, the country seemed to lose its mind," The New York Times says, kicking off its 10th anniversary retrospective of the tea party movement.
"How do you write a 10 years later piece on the Tea Party and not mention - not once, not even in passing - the fact that it was essentially a hysterical grassroots tantrum about the fact that a black guy was president?" asked non-biased Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, calling it journalistic "Malpractice."
In the first draft of this column, I joked that The New York Times might add a line about tea party "Racism" before the day was over to placate the Twitter mob.
Tea party protesters not only felt like they were under assault from Democrats but that they had been abandoned by the GOP establishment.
A CBS/New York Times poll at time found that the average tea party activist was more educated than the average American, and their concerns mirrored the mainstream.
The tea party had three main grievances: Obamacare, government spending and "a feeling that their opinions are not represented in Washington." The protests were fueled by Democrats' unprecedented action on a health care policy.
A decade later, the tea party's suspicion that the health care law was merely an incremental way to move toward socialist policies turned out to be correct, as most of the Democratic Party presidential field can attest.
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2019/08/30/the-left-cant-stop-lying-about-the-tea-party-n2552400
"How do you write a 10 years later piece on the Tea Party and not mention - not once, not even in passing - the fact that it was essentially a hysterical grassroots tantrum about the fact that a black guy was president?" asked non-biased Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, calling it journalistic "Malpractice."
In the first draft of this column, I joked that The New York Times might add a line about tea party "Racism" before the day was over to placate the Twitter mob.
Tea party protesters not only felt like they were under assault from Democrats but that they had been abandoned by the GOP establishment.
A CBS/New York Times poll at time found that the average tea party activist was more educated than the average American, and their concerns mirrored the mainstream.
The tea party had three main grievances: Obamacare, government spending and "a feeling that their opinions are not represented in Washington." The protests were fueled by Democrats' unprecedented action on a health care policy.
A decade later, the tea party's suspicion that the health care law was merely an incremental way to move toward socialist policies turned out to be correct, as most of the Democratic Party presidential field can attest.
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2019/08/30/the-left-cant-stop-lying-about-the-tea-party-n2552400
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