Walter Russel MeadThinkers

The Tea Party | Political Movement is a jacksonian populist movement which combines a belief in American exceptionalism with a skepticism of American's ability to create a liberal world order abroad.

The Tea Party | Political Movement is divided into ron paul's 'paulites' who seek to avoid foreign military involvement in a jeffersonian way and sarah palin's 'palinites' who favor avoidance in unnecessary conflicts but a more aggressive response to maintaining America's primacy in international relations. Mead identifies two main trends, one personified by former Texas congressman ron Paul and the other by former governor of Alaska sarah Palin. 'Paulites' have a Jeffersonian approach that seeks to avoid foreign military involvement