What was @justinamash's first clue? That's been obvious since, oh, 2011.
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The Tea Party didn't exist in 2008. It was formed in 2009 in reaction to Obama's election and grew in strength in reaction to Obamacare, as I recall.
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It seemed to me it sprang into being immediately after the election, but maybe I am misremembering.
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2010 was the year the Tea Party helped Republicans take the House, and that was the year Amash and a wave of Tea Party Republicans were first elected.
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I do recall that, but the immediate birth of the movement that became the Tea Party, however much they might try to deny it, was a response to the election of President Obama, nothing to do with taxes or whatever, and the ugly demonstrations began right after the election.
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