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Although there is a long history of conservative movements in America, the library of social movement studies leans heavily to the left. The Tea Party movement, its sudden emergence and its uncertain fate, provides a challenge to mainstream American politics. It also challenges scholars of social movements to reconcile this new movement with existing knowledge about social movements in America. Understanding the Tea Party Movement addresses these challenges by explaining why and how the movement emerged when it did, how it relates to earlier eruptions of conservative populism, and by raising c.

The contemporary lower middle class, as constituted in the Tea Party movement, holds increasingly unfavorable views of government, especially among exurban whites, based on imagined and preferred versions of reality. This imagined reality valorizes the ingroup as the hegemonic standard even as their actual status and class opportunities decline. At its center, the Tea Party movement relies on moralism (conservative values), essentialistic fantasy (racism and religiosity), and Manichaean categorization (good/evil) to explain the reality of job loss, rising prices, and severe real estate decline. Rather than interrogate finance capital and deregulation, the Tea Party movement instead indulges in spectacle as both individual gratification and to herald renewed white privilege. However, the simultaneous rejection of the established institutions of power, simplistic policy formulation, and condemnation of outgroups suggests a racially motivated authoritarianism and destructiveness rather than any particular political commitment.

From the introduction: The Tea Party movement and its constitutional vision for the United States is perhaps the hottest topic in American public law today. The rising tide of popular support for the Tea Party movement has transformed what was once cast aside as a fleeting faction into a formidable force in American politics—one that could augur significant consequences for the contours of American constitutional law in the years ahead.

The Tea Party movement and its constitutional vision for the United States is perhaps the hottest topic in American public law today. The rising tide of popular support for the Tea Party movement has transformed what was once cast aside as a fleeting faction into a formidable force in American politics—one that could augur significant consequences for the contours of American constitutional law in the years ahead.

The sudden emergence and prominence of the Tea Party movement raises important questions about the role of the Constitution in popular politics. More than any political movement in recent memory, the Tea Party movement is centrally focused on the meaning of the Constitution. Tea Party supporters believe that the nation is facing a crisis because it has abandoned the Constitution, and they seek to restore the government to what they believe are its foundational principles.

On February 19, 2009, CNBC journalist Rick Santelli's fiery outburst against the Obama Administration on national television gave the Tea Party Movement (TPM) its namesake. Soon after rallies were organized across the U.S. under the Tea Party banner. From its inception in 2009, the TPM became an essential player in U.S. politics and pivotal in flipping control of the Senate and House to the Republican Party during the 2010 midterm elections. The movement faced controversy on both sides of the political spectrum for its beliefs and fervent stance against compromising with political adversaries. Researchers argued that the TPM was an example of Richard Hofstadter's Paranoid Style. Others claimed that the movement's rhetoric, member demographics, and political success demonstrated it was outside the boundaries of the Paranoid Style. To better understand the nature of the TPM, this project conducted an inductive study of TPM rhetoric from 2009-2013. By using texts from TPM speeches as well as TPM bloggers and commenters online, this study examined the rhetorical development of the movement and its symbolic trajectory. It was found that TPM advocates relied on a myth of return, which portrayed the movement as being the voice of the silent majority and representative of the founding values of America. While the themes and examples used by the movement changed over the years, the overarching message continued to focus on an us versus them mentality. Overall, the symbolic trajectory of the TPM raises questions about the typically adaptive nature of social movements and suggests that the TPM became entelechialized early in its development and throughout 2009-2013.

Maģistra darbā "Populisma iezīmes ASV "Tea Party" kustībā" tiek pētīta 2009.gadā ASV izveidojošās Tea Party kustības politisko platformu, kā arī izcelšanās apstākļus, ar mērķi ir noskaidrot, vai ASV Tea Party kustībā novērojamas populisma iezīmes, kas padarītu to piederīgu plašākai populistu organizāciju ģimenei. Maģistra darbā izvirzītais problēmjautājums ir, vai Tea Party kustības ideoloģiskā platforma un izcelsme liecina par tās piederību plašākai populistu ģimenei? Maģistra darba hipotēze – Tea Party kustība ir piederīga plašākai populistu ģimenei, jo kustības ideoloģija un izcelsmes konteksts atbilst tās piederīgo raksturojumam- un pētījuma gaitā tiek pierādīta. Darbā tiek izmantots Kasa Mudes populisma definējums un teorētiskās atziņas par apstākļiem, kādos veidojās un mobilizējās populistiskas organizācijas. Lai analizētu Tea Party kustības radniecību ar plašāku populistisku organizāciju kopu, tiek izmantotas ideoloģijas un izcelsmes pieejas. Tiek secināts, ka Tea Party var uzskatīt par piederošu plašākai populistu saimei, jo tās politiskajā platformā spilgti atspoguļojās populisma ideoloģija, kā arī tās izcelsmes apstākļi ir sakritīgi ar tiem, kādi atspoguļojas teorijā, kas balstīta uz citu, lielākoties Eiropas, gadījumu analīzi. ; Master thesis "Populist traits in the Tea Party movement" is devoted to analysing Tea Party movement's political platform and circumstances and context in which the movement arose in 2009. The objective of this research is to establish, whether populist traits are evident in the Tea Party movement and whether this means that the movement belongs to a broader populist family. The research question put forward at the begining of the thesis is- does the Tea Party movement's political platform and movements origin testifies to its kinship with a broader populist family? The hypothesis that is put forward is– Tea Party movement is related to a broader populist family, for its ideology and the context of its origin conforms to the characteristics of the ones already belonging to the populist family – is proven to be correct. The paper uses the populism theory and definition developed by Cas Mudde. To analyse Tea Party movement's kinship to a broader populist family two party family identification - idelogy and origin - approaches are used. It is concluded that Tea Party can be considred to belong to a broader populist family, as in its political platform populist ideology is clearly visible, as well as the context in which the movement orginated is compatible with the one that is refltected in the theory based on largely European populist organization case study analysis.