New York Instances: “In early 2009, congressional Republicans had been staring down an extended exile within the political wilderness. Barack Obama was about to imagine the presidency, and Democrats had been inside attain of a filibuster-proof, 60-vote supermajority within the Senate and the most important Home majority in additional than 20 years after the financial disaster of 2008.”
“However Republicans noticed a glimmer of hope within the energized far-right populist motion that emerged out of a backlash to Mr. Obama — the primary Black president — and his get together’s aggressive financial and social agenda, which included a federal well being care plan. Republicans seized on the Tea Get together and related teams, with their nativist leanings and vehemently anti-establishment impulses, as their ticket again to energy.”
“However as an alternative, the motion consumed them.”