The Tea Party Political Analysis

Most familiar faces in the political arena today belong to the members of the Tea Party movement who have hijacked and derailed the political direction of the GOP platform. Tea Party politicians stand on the principle of ideological conservatism, and hold strong attitudes towards social and financial issues that concern the American public. The Tea Party has enjoyed tremendous popularity for the last few years. A popularity that has helped the members establish an audience and a large supporting in the Republican Party. But the success of this social movement is not a positive force in the progressive change in policy that Americans have come to expect as a result of the agenda that Barak Obama, the current Democratic president of the United
Obama’s election as president was more than a simple political loss for Republicans who were forced to say goodbye to the executive power they had been enjoying throughout Bush’s administration. Obama represented a challenge to the social status of the pseudo conservative ideologies propagated by the Republican party. Obama’s victory depicted a change in the demographics of the nation as he was broadly supported by minorities and youth and symbolized a changing America. Republicans, such as Rick Santelli whose “rant” regarding Obama’s economic stimulus package sparked the Tea Party movement, saw Obama as a threat to their economic beliefs. The agenda set forth by the Obama administration was different than the Republican view on government responsibility, especially in regards to taxation and federal spending. Tea Party politicians claim this to be the reason behind the establishment of their social movement. In fact the TEA acronym stands for Taxed Enough Already. Though this might have been the case in the beginning, in the truth of the matter, Tea Party success is by virtue of the discriminatory language that they have adopted in order to create fear and anxiety within the public. This fear seems to be a response to the changing demographics of the public which has altered the identity of America. As Patrick Fisher argues in his article titled “The Tea Party and the Demographic and Ideological Gaps within the Republican Party”, in actuality it was the backlash against changing demographics that gathered such immense support for the Tea Party from the beginning. Unlike what one might expect from a social movement, the Tea Party does not seem to have