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The "Tea Party" phenomenon was complicated. To assume, as @jwpetersnyt does, that it "didn't get what it wanted," is problematic as is leaving race entirely out of the analysis./1
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@jwpetersNYT @AngieMaxwell1 See also the excellent book by Theda Skocpol and @V_Williamson. /3
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@jwpetersNYT @AngieMaxwell1 @V_Williamson There is a good case to be made that the "politics of anger" (especially white aggrievement) was not an unintended size effect but the essence of the movement. /4
@jwpetersNYT @AngieMaxwell1 @V_Williamson And it's important to see the "Tea Party" not in isolation but as only the most recent iteration of a "backlash" politics that extends deep into American history, almost all of which have been driven by a "politics of anger." /5
@jwpetersNYT @AngieMaxwell1 @V_Williamson Here's a lament in 1980 that unlike the "Old Right" which focused on "battling big government," the "New Right" was practicing the "politics of resentment." Except that the "Old Right" did the Old Right did that as well. /6
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