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Not sure how that @jwpetersNYT Tea Party story made it past an editor. But if anyone else needs a reminder how much racial grievance was behind the Tea Party movement, here's a piece by Arlie Hochschild that explains it: motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
@jwpetersNYT Here's the central point. That Tea Partiers saw Obama as somebody who'd let black and brown THEM cut in front of the line to the American Dream motherjones.com/politics/2016/… 
@jwpetersNYT Anywho, Arlie spent 5 years embedded in Tea Party culture. Her book was an NYT best-seller and a National Book Award finalist. And she was hardly the only one that did deep reporting on the Tea Party before and after the 2016 election.
Oh here is a highly researched piece to just this point also in the NYT today nytimes.com/2019/08/28/opi…
