The Tea Party, Ten Years Later
Authored by Dale Steinreich via The Mises Institute,
December 16, 2017 is the tenth anniversary of the modern Tea Party. That fact will surprise many laypersons who uncritically accept the mainstream narrative that the Tea Party began on February 19, 2009 when Rick Santelli, live on CNBC from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), declared a rebellion against "socialism" one month into the Obama administration.