In 2010, Barack Obama suffered the biggest setback in modern U.S. history. The mid-term elections of that fateful November 2 ended with a harsh defeat for the Democrats, who gave up 63 seats to lose their control of the House of Representatives. No party since 1934, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, had suffered such bleeding. That Republican tide was the greatest success of the Tea Party, the populist right-wing movement that anticipate…
In 2010, Barack Obama suffered the biggest setback in modern U.S. history. The mid-term elections of that fateful November 2 ended with a harsh defeat for the Democrats, who gave up 63 seats to lose their control of the House of Representatives. No party since 1934, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, had suffered such bleeding. That Republican tide was the greatest success of the Tea Party, the populist right-wing movement that anticipate…