The Death Of Allen West-Style Politics

thegrio.com — The rise of the Tea Party in 2009 and 2010 brought not only a more conservative brand of politics to Washington, but at times simply a more rude one: South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson shouting “you lie” at President Obama as he spoke to Congress, Donald Trump’s comments on Obama’s birth and grades, the numerous Republicans calling the president a socialist. But the reign of the incendiary-at-all-costs Republicans, politicians like Florida’s Allen West who made radical statements about the president that seemed much more about getting attention and TV bookings than affecting policy, seems at its end.

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