Except the Tea Party got EXACTLY what it wanted because it’s nominal opposition to deficits was a PR cover for standard anti-poor partisan GOP politics. The net result of 2010 takeover was gerrymandering, anti-abortion laws, anti-environmentalism, taking healthcare from millions. pic.twitter.com/Q9uvpisYFm

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 28, 2019

NYT has incentive to keep buying the transparently bogus line the Tea Party cared about deficits b/c their reporting in 2009 ate it up. They didn’t spot a Bircherism Koch job at the time and think it best to simply ignore it now and view it all as organic “populist” uprising. pic.twitter.com/3iybOV8YZj

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 28, 2019

The Times is a hopeless case and still continues to privilege right-wing narratives by treating them as face-value truth, even years after the bullshit has been called over and over.