It’s Just a Jump to the Right: The Tea Party’s Influence on Conservative Discourse

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2017

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Elliott, Richard D. “It’s Just a Jump to the Right: The Tea Party’s Influence on Conservative Discourse.” UMBC Review: Journal of Undergraduate Research 18 (2017): 156–73. https://ur.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/354/2017/05/umbc_Review_2017.pdf#page=142

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This study analyzes the correlation of speeches by members of the right wing Tea Party caucus with mainstream conservative political discourse. The rhetoric of these politicians after their ascendance in the 2010 congressional elections was compared to the rhetoric used by John McCain, the Republican nominee in 2008, and Donald Trump, the Republican nominee in 2016 and current president-elect, to understand the correlation with other changes in conservative discourse. I studied this discourse shift using speech analysis to code for instances of negative discourse and establish a comparison between these election years while also noting rhetorical shifts evident among mainstream conservative politicians