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The Tea Party's Phony Populism
A new New York Times poll shows Tea Partiers are grumpy, older, well-off Americans who think white people are oppressed—in other words, Republicans.
Peter Beinart
Published
Apr. 15 2010
6:33PM EDT
Participants in a tea party rally sing the Star Spangled Banner in Omaha, Nebraska on April 1, 2010. (Photo: Nati Harnik / AP Photo)
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