RICHARD BROOKHISER ON Tea Parties and the American Political Tradition. “The tea-party movement has made a mark on the politics of the Obama era, and it has historical parallels—less in this country’s founding era than in two great ‘anti’ movements of the last two centuries: the resistance to Thomas Jefferson’s embargo (1807-09) and to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s plan to pack the Supreme Court (1937).”
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