Are we sure the Tea Partiers weren't a genuine grassroots movement? I definitely encountered a lot of true believers in my day-to-day back then. The "astroturf" line against them always struck me as wishful thinking from liberals https://twitter.com/Brock_toon/status/1251585216340275204 …
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Replying to @CarlPaulus @williamrblack
When exactly did the "Tea Party" language first take off? I only heard of it with the Rick Santelli rant. Were Ron Paulite opponents of TARP in 2008 using the "Tea Party" language?
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Yeah, I think Santelli really gave the movement its name. But it was already out there during TARP I.
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So was he the first to use the "Tea Party" name or did he just popularize a term that was already being used? (Other than the fact that the Tea Party was a thing in 1773...)
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Dunno. The person who popularizes a term is often not the one who coined it.
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