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Tea Party follies; Gillibrand out

On August 28, 2019

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WASHINGTON – SEPTEMBER 12: Protesters talk with each other on Capitol Hill during the Tea Party Express rally on September 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington to march to the Capitol Hill to protest high spending, higher taxes and the growth of the federal government. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Good for Paul Krugman, who blasts his own paper for yet another ridiculous story that assumes, in the face of all evidence, that the Tea Party was a grass roots rebellion against government spending in general, as opposed to a Koch-funded astroturf movement based on opposition to government spending going to Those People:

Oh, God. Are we still pretending that the Tea Party was about small government and concern about budget deficits? It was always, from the beginning, about racial anger; opposition to big government only to the extent that it helps Those People 1/ https://t.co/TI90hLoMsQ— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 28, 2019

. . . At least it got somebody’s attention:

We have updated this story assessing the policy failures of the Tea Party movement 10 years after its rise to include context about attacks on President Barack Obama and racist displays at some Tea Party rallies. https://t.co/r4k0qZCQlH— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) August 28, 2019

Also, Kristen Gillibrand has dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.