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The Left, Right, and Religious

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The Tea Party and the Glenn Beck Rally

I was much more sympathetic in my reporting on the tea party I did a lot of the same we crossed paths out covering rallies covering the 2012 campaign. And I was pretty sympathetic to the tea party and what I thought the tea party was trying to do, which was largely in sort of an ideological disruption based mostly on concerns about debt and deficit size and scope of government. You're quoting people in the book from the conversations that you've had, you seem to see more of a religious component in the tea party movement is that fair, or at least that that was part of what animated that movement.

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