The Tea Party | Political Movement is constitutionalist to the point that their manifesto contains a rigid provision stipulating that all legislation passed by congress should specify the precise clause in the constitution giving congress the power to pass such a law.
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 concerned with the return of government as intended by some of the founding fathers.
The Tea Party | Political Movement is against refinancing mortgages in the wake of the great recession as it promoted bad behavior by subsidizing losers' mortgages.
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
The Tea Party | Political Movement is captured by the backronym for 'tea=taxed enough already', which did not appear until months after the first nationwide protests.
The Tea Party | Political Movement is concerned primarily with the constitution sitting at the center of its reform agenda.
The Tea Party | Political Movement is an extension of this political strategy to promote corporate profit at the expense of the public good.