Tea Party Anger Management
Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers
A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding
ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned
the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.
Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was
curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance. Many of the
anti-science operatives who defended cigarettes are currently deploying
their tobacco-inspired playbook internationally to evade accountability
for the fossil fuel industry's role in driving climate disruption. -Read More
