Tea Party

The Tea Party is a U.S. political movement that emerged around 2009, characterized by fiscal conservatism, limited government, and anti-establishment activism. In the claims it is analyzed as a product of engineered state-legitimacy crisis rather than purely grassroots spontaneity, and as one that fused astroturfing techniques with grassroots entrepreneurship into a self-propagating franchise.

Claims that use this term

• The Tea Party was a product of engineered state-legitimacy crisis, not grassroots spontaneity
• The Tea Party fused astroturfing with grassroots entrepreneurship into a self-propagating franchise