Saturday, July 26, 2014

Salon: Tea Party's self-defeating hate: Why toxic resentment hurts their bottom line

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July 26th, 2014
Tea Party Patriots' Exempt America from Obamacare rally, on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sept. 10, 2013.

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