Keynote speaker at "Tea Party" rally.
The Tea Party movement is a populist[1] United States protest movement. The movement emerged in 2009 through an ongoing series of Tea Party protests.[2][3][4][5] The protests are partially in response to the 2009 stimulus package[6][7] as well as the 2008 bailouts.[8] In 2010 The Economist described the movement as "America's most vibrant political force."[9] In general, the Tea Party movement supports constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility and free markets[10][11][12]. More specifically, the movement is anti-stimulus[13], anti-deficit[14] and anti-bailout[15][16]. Some demonstrators have also opposed federal support for the ailing automobile industry.[2] The name "Tea Party" is a reference to the historic Boston Tea Party of 1773, a protest by American colonists against taxation by the British government when the colonists had no representation in the British Parliament. The Boston Tea Party pre-dated and laid the groundwork for the American Revolutionary War.[17] Tea Party protests have sought to evoke similar images, slogans and themes to this iconic period in American history.
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