RFK Jr. Called the Tea Party ‘The Resurgence of the Confederacy – By Joseph Simonson (Free Beacon) / May 15, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once called the Tea Party movement “the resurgence of the Confederacy,” a statement that could alienate some of his newfound supporters.
Kennedy slammed the grassroots movement at the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize award dinner, where he was a keynote speaker. There, he concluded his remarks with a blistering criticism of Tea Party Republicans, who at the time comprised the most successful conservative electoral movement since the 1990s.
“Big government is a threat, but that’s not what the Tea Party cares about,” Kennedy said. “They just don’t want to pay their taxes. And they don’t want, and they don’t want, a black person to be president of the United States.”
Later in the speech, Kennedy said the “whole Tea Party movement came out of the nostalgia for a plantation economy.”
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