I don't often strongly disagree with Lever journalists, but I have to take issue with presenting Occupy Wall St as a counterpart of the Tea Party;
The two couldn't have been more different.
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OWS was the US arm of a global revolt. A convergence of multiple activist networks (including AdBusters, Anonymous. See David Graeber's The Democracy Project;
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-democracy-project
The Tea Party was a series of stunts coordinated by reputation launderers in GoP-aligned consultancies, and blown up by partisan media (notably Fox TV and neoconservative talk radio);
https://theauthoritarians.org/comment-on-the-tea-party-movement/
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