On February 19, 2009, CNBC financial correspondent Rick Santelli stood on the bustling floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and pronounced what will be historic words: “We’re thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists that want to show up at Lake Michigan, I’m going to start organizing it.”[1] Rallies were held around the nation on April fifteenth of that year. Over the summer, Tea Party members showed up en masse at Congressional town halls. A September twelfth march on Washington drew thousands of people to the National Mall. This, in a nutshell, was how the social movement called the Tea Party was born.
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