# What is the Tea Party movement, really?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 23, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-tea-party-movement-really/664271 "2013-07-23T01:13:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-tea-party-movement-really/664271/121 "2013-07-25T18:41:17Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Pat Buchanan is one. Quite consistently.
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> I should hope you don’t want your politics to resemble **his** in any way conceivable.

Pat Buchanan is an opponent of empire. I have no problem with my politics resembling his in that way. In any case his isolationist views on economics policy are hardly influential in the party. Unless you count the support of sanctions of Cuba, Iran, etc. (which are despicable, the sanctions that is), the Republicans aren’t isolationist. Though non-interventionists are becoming slightly more outspoken.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-tea-party-movement-really/664271/122 "2013-07-25T18:46:57Z")

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> [@WillFarnaby](#):
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> Pat Buchanan is an opponent of empire. I have no problem with my politics resembling his in that way.

ISTM any libertarian should have **some** objection to paleoconservative politics.

> [@WillFarnaby](#):
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> In any case his isolationist views on economics policy are hardly influential in the party.

That’s why he started [his own](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Party_(2002)).

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**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-tea-party-movement-really/664271/123 "2013-07-25T18:56:24Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> ISTM any libertarian should have **some** objection to paleoconservative politics.

Which is why I support his opposition to military adventurism and little else.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-tea-party-movement-really/664271/124 "2013-07-25T20:13:01Z")

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It’s Astroturf gone Frankenstein–an out-of-control, leaderless movement of yahoos, bigots, & Know-Nothings, that are _angry_, but have no real understanding of questions like “at what?” or “why?”.

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