Kemunculan Gerakan Tea Party di Amerika Serikat

Agitha Binar Arshapinega , Nur Rachmat Yuliantoro

2014 | Skripsi | Ilmu Hubungan Internasional

Abstract Tea Party Movement is a conservative political movement in United States of America which emerged in 2009. Anger among economic conservatives rose yet higher in early 2009 when Congress responded to President Obama’s call for a massive economic stimulus during economic crisis to keep the recession from turning into a Depression. In the aftermath of a potentially demoralizing 2008 electoral defeat, when the Republican Party seemed widely discredited, the emergence of the Tea Party Movement provided conservative activists with a new identity funded by Republican business elites and reinforced by a network of conservative media sources. Conservatives derisively call moderate Republicans: RINO – Republican in Name Only. The anger of grassroots Tea Partiers about new federal social programs such as the Affordable Care Act coexists with considerable acceptance toward longstanding federal social programs like Social Security and Medicare, to which Tea Partiers feel legitimately entitled. Tea Party participants are a small minority of Americans. In many polls, more people say they are unsure about or unfamiliar with the Tea Party than say they support it. But the emergence of the Tea Party Movement has brought implication toward United States politics and government. Tea Party Movement has revitalized conservatism and pulled the national Republican Party toward the far right, also affected Obama’s policies by their influences in U. S Congress.

Kata Kunci : Ekonomi - Amerika Serikat