Republicans Are Still Waiting For Joe Biden's Tea Party Backlash

[DonViejo]

04/30/2021 11:30 am ET Updated 19 hours ago

The GOP insists the same type of conservative backlash President Barack Obama faced is coming for President Joe Biden.

By Igor Bobic

President Joe Biden has spent his first 100 days pushing massive spending bills, proposing higher taxes and enacting progressive policies. But unlike his Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama, a mass movement in opposition hasn’t materialized yet.

At this point in his presidency, Obama faced the Tea Party revolt. On April 15, 2009 ― Tax Day ― thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across the U.S. to demonstrate against high taxes and increased government spending following the Great Recession. In Washington, D.C., a crowd even forced a temporary shutdown of the White House after they hurled tea bags onto the executive mansion’s lawn.

Republicans insist the same type of backlash is coming for Biden if he continues down the path he’s on. But the party, still reeling from years of Donald Trump and a Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, faces a problem: some of Biden’s policies are very popular.

That’s particularly true of the coronavirus stimulus. Turns out, people are less displeased with spending when it puts dollars in their pockets, as Republican Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) acknowledged to HuffPost this week.

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[underpants]

1. He's not black either

That was what the Teabagger thing was about anyway.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. EXACTLY! You nailed it. Racist MOFOs

[Volaris]

8. I was just going to post that;

The republicans still think that was about TAXES.
Which means its not an act anymore; they really ARE that delusional.

[ck4829]

3. There was a very special reason why the Tea Party formed... Biden's not it.

[abqtommy]

4. There are no reTHUG "conservatives" these days. They're extinct.

The Tea Party was the advance guard for today's reTHUG Fascist Insurrectionists and we might not know what to do with a Tea Party but history has clearly showed us how to deal with Fascists.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Joe has been around the block a few times.

He knows how Washington works and how Republicans think. He is beating them at their own game by putting the needs of the poor and Middle class before the rich.

Joe is doing WHAT Jesus Chriat did and preached about....looking out for His people. Joe is more PRO-LIFE and PRO-FAMILY than the Republican clowns profess to be. Even Republican voters are seeing that, thus approve of Biden's proposals to tax the rich.

[uponit7771]

6. K&R, Biden is investing in Americans instead of rich people

[tanyev]

7. This perpetuates the myth that the Tea Party was a spontaneous grassroots movement.

The Tea Party was created by the Koch brothers, Fox News, and a whole host of all the usual players.

The Tea Party Movement is a political movement that gained national attention in the summer of 2009 when organized protests occurred at Congressional town hall meetings on healthcare reform. The Tea Party itself is not a political party; it is a conglomerate of loosely affiliated "grassroots" organizations such as the Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Patriots, Tax Day Tea Party, and others. While the Movement has no formal political affiliations, many members endorse Republican candidates for office. There is also a Tea Party Caucus in the United States Congress. Although the Tea Party has no official platform, most of the groups associated with the Movement share the same basic ideological position on domestic and foreign affairs in that they are anti-government, anti-spending, anti-immigration, and anti-compromise politics.[1]

Jane Mayer writes in Dark Money, "On closer inspection, as the Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol and the Ph.D. student Vanessa Williams observed in their 2012 book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, the Tea Party movement was a "mass rebellion... funded by corporate billionaires, like the Koch brothers, led by over-the-hill former GOP kingpins like Dick Armey, and ceaselessly promoted by millionaire media celebrities like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.""[2]

While promoted as a spontaneous "grassroots" movement, many of the activities of Tea Party groups were organized by corporate lobbying groups like Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tea_Party

[AZProgressive]

9. The Tea Party also started from a rant by a CNBC commentator