Jeff Jacoby engages in revisionist history when he calls the Tea Party a “grass-roots movement’’ (“The Tea Party, RIP,’’ Opinion, Feb. 14). At the time, cynics referred to it as an astroturf movement, given that its major impetus and funding, in bursting forth as a national force, came from the political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity. That group was the brainchild of billionaires David and Charles Koch. The Tea Party was simply a ploy by the Kochs to move political discourse more to the right. They could care less about fiscal responsibility, caring more about themselves and their own best interests.

Ben Myers

Harvard