Abstract
The Tea party draws its name from the Boston Tea Party, which was a pre-revolutionary war
protest against british taxation policies.
The party often invoke images of the American Revolution because some consider themselves
defenders of a republic they say is being undermined by the current government.
The Tea Partu can in fact not be considered as a party, but more as a grass root movement
made of a loose affiliation of smaller local groups. What is more, most of the tea partier run as
republicans, and 80% of their supporters feel like being republicans
