America’s never-ending tea party

Today’s tea partyers are not the first. In the 1920s, anti-prohibition “wets” invoked the 1773 event.

Philadelphia Inquirer – April 4, 2011

Today’s tea partyers are not the first to invoke the 1773 protest in their objections to expanding federal power. As one of my students (Liza Bergmann ’12) learned from old newspaper articles, the opponents of Prohibition also made reference to the Boston Tea Party.

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