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The Tea Party's Weird Ideas About the Original Tea Party (Interview)

Ron Formisano is a professor of history at the University of Kentucky. At the 2014 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians he spoke with HNN about the differences between the original Tea Party and the current Tea Party that borrows its name.