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Critics like Mayer also allege that the secrecy of the Kochs and some of their operatives helped create a “conventional wisdom" that America's turn to the right was "a public backlash against liberal spending programs", when in fact out-of-sight, the Koch network was helping this political shift along.<ref name=mayer-7>{{cite book |first1=Jane |last1=Mayer |page=7| title=Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the … |date=January 24, 2017 |

publisher=Knopf Doubleday |isbn=9780307947901 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDf4DQAAQBAJ&dq=%E2%80%9CConventional+wisdom+often+attributed+the+rightward+march+to+a+public+backlash+against+liberal+spending+programs.%22&pg=PA7 |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref> The Tea Party movement has been attacked as Koch-funded [[Astroturfing|Astroturf]]—as opposed to [[Grassroots]]—political movement, with groups like Sam Adams Alliance having "deep ties" to the Koch brothers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Monbiot |first=George |date=2010-10-25 |title=The Tea Party movement: deluded and inspired by billionaires |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/25/tea-party-koch-brothers |access-date=2023-08-09 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Secret Origins of the Tea Party |url=https://time.com/secret-origins-of-the-tea-party/ |access-date=2023-08-09 |website=TIME.com}}</ref>

Another example being the seemingly spontaneous anti-Obamacare outrage at town hall meetings in summer of 2009, that was assisted by FreedomWorks (connected with the Koch brothers) which "circulating a memo instructing Tea Partiers on how to disrupt" the meetings.<ref name=mayer-238>{{cite book |first1=Jane |last1=Mayer |page=238| title=Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the … |date=January 24, 2017 |