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This revised edition features a new afterword, updated through the 2016 election.

On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli delivered a dramatic rant against Obama administration programs to shore up the plunging housing market. Invoking the Founding Fathers and ridiculing "losers" who could not pay their mortgages, Santelli called for "Tea Party" protests. Over the next two years, conservative activists took to the streets and airways, built hundreds of local Tea Party groups, and weighed in with votes and money to help right-wing Republicans win electoral victories in 2010.

In this penetrating new study, Harvard University's Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson go beyond images of protesters in Colonial costumes to provide a nuanced portrait of the Tea Party. What they find is sometimes surprising. Drawing on grassroots interviews and visits to local meetings in several regions, they find that older, middle-class Tea Partiers mostly approve of Social Security, Medicare, and generous benefits for military veterans. Their opposition to "big government" entails reluctance to pay taxes to help people viewed as undeserving "freeloaders" - including immigrants, lower income earners, and the young. At the national level, Tea Party elites and funders leverage grassroots energy to further longstanding goals such as tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation of business, and privatization of the very same Social Security and Medicare programs on which many grassroots Tea Partiers depend. Elites and grassroots are nevertheless united in hatred of Barack Obama and
determination to push the Republican Party sharply to the right.

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism combines fine-grained portraits of local Tea Party members and chapters with an overarching analysis of the movement's rise, impact, and likely fate.

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"[E]xceptionally informative." -- Timothy Noah, The New York Times Book Review

"The authors pepper firsthand anecdotes with extensive-and at times weighty-statistical and polling data...A timely study of a contemporary movement and its far-reaching effects on politics and policy." --Kirkus Reviews

"Readers interested in grassroots political organizations, the influence of outside interests on political parties, or the Tea Party itself, as well as those whose leanings fall elsewhere on the political spectrum will find this an eye-opening book." --Library Journal

"This is an indispensable guide to the Tea Party phenomenon, and also an excellent demonstration of the power of first-hand research to add a richness of understanding that survey results can't provide. By spending patient time with Tea Party activists around the country, Skocpol and Williamson have been able to create a far fuller picture of the Tea Party than we have had before." --Nicholas Lemann, Dean, and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

"This important book will draw fire from both the political left and right, for contrary to the denunciations of liberal commentators, the Tea Party is not a motley collection of racist crazies. And contrary to the praise of conservative commentators, the Tea Party is not a pure grass-roots citizens' movement. Skocpol and Williamson provide a much-needed dose of analysis that begins to balance out the polemics that dominate discussion of the Tea Party." --Morris P. Fiorina, Wendt Family Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

"Skocpol and Williamson have produced the richest, most nuanced portrait of the Tea Party since it burst onto the political scene in early 2009. Drawing on a wealth of observational, interview, survey, and web-based research, their analysis and presentation is both sympathetic with the participatory ethic of the Tea Partiers and critical of the way they have been used by conservative advocacy groups and press outlets to breed misinformation and shift the Republican agenda sharply to the right. A must-read book for the 2012 election season." --Thomas Mann, Brookings Institution, co-author of The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track

"An interesting look at an influential political movement." --Booklist

"[A] fine-grained nuance and thoughtfulness that resonates." -- Publishers Weekly

"Until three years ago, we knew the tea party as a long-ago event in Boston Harbor, aimed at a government across the Atlantic. In 2010, a new tea party stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and was aimed directly at Washington. That event changed the Republican Party, the United States Congress, and the Obama presidency. This book delves deeply into what happened in 2010, why it happened, and what the Tea Party means for the future of American politics. It's a book every student of American politics should read." -Mickey Edwards, author of The Modern Conservative Movement

"...the best academic work on the Tea Party" - David Frum, The Daily Beast

"Skocpol and Williamson have provided us with an excellent roadmap to trace where it came from, where it has been, and where it might be going." --Contemporary Sociology

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Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and past president of the American Political Science Association.

Vanessa Williamson is a PhD candidate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. Previously, she served as the Policy Director for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

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Michael A. Males

outstanding and alarming

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 23, 2011

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Though couched in cordial and scholarly tones, the authors present a carefully researched study of the Tea Party that is more alarming than the random fulminations of liberals and progressives. These authors don't hate Tea Partiers and go out of their way to present their views fully, fairly, and in the same friendly tone they feel Tea Partiers accorded them over their months-long observations. However, the picture their research paints is scary indeed. Again and again, the authors return to their startling findings that the Tea Party is a fairly large (20% of Americans, 40% of 2010 voters), influential (controlling, in fact, in GOP politics), and primarily a generational movement.

That is, Tea Partiers are heavily dominated by Americans averaging around 60 years old, overwhelmingly white, who feel--by reason of their age and generation--that they are superior citizens (perhaps the last "real Americans") who deserve huge, big-government, tax-funded benefits through Social Security and Medicare... but that younger Americans as a whole are leeches undeserving of ANY public benefits such as college grants and health care. By their own views in polls and statements, Tea Partiers express appalling racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-youth prejudices characteristic of the pre-civil-rights era they moslty grew up in. Unfortunately, polls and surveys (which YouthFacts details, [...]) show the Tea Party represents the views of a majority of senior citizens who are angry, hostile, and unwilling or unable to adapt to modern America's racial diversification.

Every older generation since Hesiod (700 BC), and probably long before, has bitterly criticized its young. But the Tea Party and most aged Americans represent something new: elders who support ultra-reactionary policies and GOP candidates aimed at disowning younger America--their grandchildren's generation. That a wealth of social statistics show today's more diverse younger Americans have among the lowest rates of crime, violence, suicide, violent death, early pregnancy, dropout, and other ills (and richly deserve more, not slashed, investment) is ignored by Tea Partiers who only trust information derived from inside their own heads--that is, their impressions, feelings, fears, and narrow media that reinforce them. This is a scary book, all the more so because they authors were not out to do a hatchet job on the Tea Party, but let their research and TP's own views speak for themelves.

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A Catagorical Failure of the Given Mission Statement.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 21, 2014

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Ultimately I found that Williamson and Skocpol’s The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism at odds with the overwhelming majority of my interactions with the Tea Party writ large. The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism bills itself as trying to counter the media supported stereotype of what a Tea Party member looks like, sounds like, and believes. The portrayal of the Tea Part in this book is inconsistent at best, as it makes statements to attempt to counter the pervasive caricatures of the Tea Party platforms and members, then concludes every anecdote and follows every piece of evidence with a personal story from people the book interviews who fits the caricature of a Tea Party member perfectly. Bonnie, for instance, fits the stereotypical Tea Partier quite well; elderly, white and fearful of “the Islamics wanting to take over the country.” If she were only mentioned once, a reader could overlook it, but her continued reappearance throughout the book underscores the authors’ attempt to indicate that Bonnie is a standard Tea Party member. Williamson and Skocpol continue this pattern throughout the book. They seem to legitimate or at least give fair credence to some major Tea Party concern and then end the section with a line from an elderly, misinformed, or radical Tea Party member, indicating that this is person is your standard Tea Party member, rather than an outlier.
Writing about the Tea Party in this way does a great disservice to the book, the authors, and the Tea Party itself. The authors categorically fail to portray the Tea Party’s arguments and concerns in the best possible light before inspecting their arguments and placing them under scrutiny. Rather, Skocpol and Williamson routinely take an issue from the Tea Party platform, site an independent study to show that Tea Party members are outside of what the writers define as “normal” either directly or by insinuation, and then produce a quote from a fearful, misinformed, or under read Tea Party member. This is not how one produces an academic study on a rising and powerful political movement; this is how one sells books to people looking only to confirm their preconceived notions about one of the most powerful populist movements in the 21st century. A movement which has been consistently vilified by the political, intellectual and media left since they first won their first primary. As such, Williamson and Skocpol failed to “g[et] beyond stereotypes and preconceptions,” as they claimed was their mission statement in the introduction to the book. Instead they made half hearted attempts to do so before falling to the habit of using the interviews from the most extreme, radical, fearful and misinformed to sell books rather than using the interviews from the possibly boring, reasonable folks who make up a majority of the Tea Party.

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I find it interesting comparing the reviews of this book itself in that the number of readers who give it 5 stars is just as close to those who give it a 1 star. (Similar to our government as of late. (no?)
That said, I thought this was an enthralling analysis and well researched book that gives us a well rounded background of the Tea Party as well as a fascinating picture of the growth and traction of movements in general; that is, the inception of the tea party movement and how momentum can be built and fueled (even fabricated?) by media and special interest groups-- as well as the role of democratic participation and political process that are intertwined as a result. Skocpol leaves us asking very thoughtful questions and the need for further research on the conundrum, which she asks--- on the one hand civic engagement and active participation in our political system is a good thing, but how good is it if it is driven by completely false assumptions and inciting propaganda? While Skocpol's leanings are pretty clear, the depiction of the genuine Tea Party folks were balanced, and felt myself able to better empathize with the well intentions of the movement, rather than the caricature impression I have always had.
My only criticism is that I only wish there was an epilogue of some sort, to have Skocpol's analysis on the aftermath of the 2012 election rather than end where it had ended.

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Insight into the Human Beings in the so-called Tea Party

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 17, 2014

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Here is an honest attempt by two liberal academics to understand the emergence of that conservative political movement known as the Tea Party. It contains some high level analysis of the organization, but its strength comes from the in depth personal conversations with ordinary Tea Party members. The book explores how the opinions of individual members are often different than those of the lobby groups that seek to influence and control them. In fact, one could say this entire work is a study of contradictions.

The book examines the connection between conservative lobby groups, Fox News and the Tea Party. The usual conspiracy crowd will make much of this and see little else. But the authors make it clear that the Tea Party is a genuine grassroots movement, not simply a fabrication by Big Money. On the other hand, it is easier to sustain a movement with lots of money available and a TV network dedicated to your cause.

The demographic of Tea Party members can be described as older, whiter, more affluent, better educated (please lose the ignorant red-neck image) and more religious than other Americans. For a movement based on self-reliance and small government, is it surprising how many members depend on their social security payments. This is symbolized by the slogan, “Keep the governments hands off my Medicare,” but they actually do know where the money comes from. They distinguish between programs whose recipients (people like them) have earned the benefits from handouts to freeloaders (people not like them).

Tea Party is about preserving what they see as the greatness of America’s past. Its members have great reverence for the U.S. Constitution, giving it almost the same status as the Bible. They have transferred their Bible study techniques directly to the constitution. And like the Bible, they interpret it liberally (if you forgive the irony of using this word) according to their pre-conceptions, for example ignoring the separation between church and state. The authors point out that the Founding Fathers were mainly Deists, far from being fundamentalists, and Tea Party positions resemble those who fought against the constitution, and secessionists during the Civil War.

As individuals, Tea Party members are kind and considerate with those whom they personally encounter. But everyone else is subjected to crude stereotyping, including their own children who are seen as lazy and entitled. Unfortunately the Revealed Truth of their religion leads to absolute certainty about everything else, so they see no need to reach out and understand other viewpoints. Thus the people who do not trust government spend all their time trying to influence that same government, often to coerce the people they disagree with.

The Tea Party phenomenon strikes me as a right wing version of the 1960’s. There is the same insular self-righteousness attitude, while it is really our interests (as we pretend to care about the greater good) attitude, and even some of the same tactics. The authors report, “Indeed, some Tea Party members are explicit about borrowing from the left. A number of our interviewees cited the work of Saul Alinsky, the famed community organizer and author of Rules for Radicals.” The difference is the hippies believed in a fantasy future, while the Tea Party longs for an idealized past.

Read this book to understand the people who make up the Tea Party movement as decent, intelligent, well-motivated individuals. It is very difficult to shift the thinking of a group of people with mutually reinforcing beliefs. But the information in this book suggests that people can be reached on a personal basis, if approached with respect and a genuine attempt to understand where they are coming from.

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Gordon Ritchie

Not every one's cuppa

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 9, 2012

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This is the most authoritative account to date of the rise of the Tea Party phenomenon in the United States. The authors are of a "liberal" persuasion themselves but do a credible and balanced job of dissecting the reality behind the media hype through polls, interviews and personal attendance at TP rallies. Among the revealing findings: there is an uneasy alliance between the social conservatives, with their hawkish views on abortion and foreign policy, and the libertarians, who just want government to get out of the way and let them lead their own lives; the older demographic means that while Tea Partiers want to slash government spending, especially on assistance to the undeserving (=young"), they are very attached to their own medicare and social security programs which they believe they have earned. In all, the book helped to explain why the Tea Party had limited inflouence on the 2012 Republican primaries and what influence it did have tended to be bifurcated between Ron Paul (the Libertarian) and the social conservatives (Bachmann, Santorum).

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Five Stars

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