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The Radical Voice In The Rhetoric Of The Tea Party Movement, Joel M. Lemuel

Communication Theses

This study examines the analyzes the 2010 National Tea Party Convention in order to determine whether the Tea Party Movements’ rhetoric is unique from the rhetoric employed by previously studied movements. The study forwards the concept of a pseudo-movement: a movement that appears radical, but has normative, procedural goals.