David Harsanyi takes a look at the inception of the Tea
Party and its activities today (“The Left Can’t Stop Lying About The Tea Party”).
He concludes:
. . .
The Tea Party, whether some of
their champions later turned out to be hypocrites or not, didn’t want to change
the Republican Party as much as they wanted to force conservative politicians
to keep their promises. The movement initially backed a number of terrible
candidates, but it learned.
In the end, the Tea Party
successfully re-energized Republicans, who went on to win two wave elections
and stifle Obama’s presidency for six years. Whether the movement was a
long-term failure, as the Times argues, is a debatable contention.
One things is true, though: the
majority of Tea Partiers were white. You know what that means, right? And, as
those of us who covered the Obama administration remember, no matter how
historically detailed or ideologically anchored your position might be, the
very act of opposing a black president was going to be depicted as act of
bigotry.
This cheap and destructive rhetoric
now dominates virtually every contemporary debate, most of which have
absolutely nothing, even tangentially, to do with race. It’s a kind of
rhetoric, in fact, that now retroactively dominates our debates, as well.
Full article at The Federalist is here.
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