Prior to President Obama's election, they didn't exist and I'm not sure that their sudden appearance was entirely coincidental. I'm struggling to figure out what a left-wing "Tea Party" would even look like (though I imagine they'd be more intelligent and ideologically coherent than the current right-wing "Tea Party"
. The Republican Tea Party seems to exist solely as a reaction to President Obama's election and to keep the Republican "base" perpetually energized against President Obama and Democrats (which has worked well for them in the last two midterms). For instance, they claimed to be horrified at the TARP bailouts at the end of Bush's (P)residency and at Wall Street yet they support candidates and policies that actually roll back new financial protections and restrictions on Wall Street.
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