RetConning the Tea Party
Whatever its genesis, a populist movement is always a populist movement, and they always end the same way.
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Cochran Wins; Tea Party Cries Foul
Will the Tea Party loss in Mississippi’s runoff turn ugly as the loser refuses to concede?
Just because you’re paranoid…
A recently released study by Princeton and Northwestern claims that Democracy, for all intents and purposes, no longer exists in the United States.
Bizarre Political Ads, Part IV
The Republicans’ hope for capturing the governorship of California in 2014. No, really.
A Bloggy Puttanesca: Now with Government Shutdowns, Tea Parties, Trucker Protests and Confederate Flags!
Quick thoughts on the continued government shutdown, this weekend’s Trucker Protest and Veteran’s March, the Washington Redskins, the Confederate flag, and the true meaning of populism.
We’re Still Doomed, Continued
A government shutdown is looking less likely. Here’s why that should scare you.
Ukip, the British Tea Party that’s Reshaping British Politics
by Brian John Spencer For Americans to understand British politics as it is practiced today, they need to understand Ukip. Why? Because the Eurosceptic, catch-all protest party is driving the agenda and forcing British...
“You don’t ‘seize’ the center, you create the center”
When I learned it, I thought the motion for this month’s Intelligence Squared U.S. debate – “The GOP Must Seize the Center or Die” – was simply dreadful. How could the opposing case possibly be made without fighting a losing battle with the proposition itself? Of course the GOP needs to win more votes from the center; of course they’ve been successfully characterized as out-of-touch with centrists. And indeed, the pre-debate poll showed a staggering 65% in favor of the […]
We’re Going Over the Cliff
Another example — and they’re daily at this point — of why I think the US is about to take a dive: A group of House Republican conservatives – incensed by its leadership’s purge of dissenters...
Book Review: The Dangerous Wane of American Communitarianism
(This is not intended as part of the League’s ongoing Inequality Symposium, but it’s not wholly unrelated either. For the Symposium posts so far, click here.) No member of the Washington, DC journalism crowd...
Conservatism Isn’t Radical—It’s “Modular”
Though the post-Lugar media tide has subsided, the American Right’s growing radicalism is still a leading theme of American political coverage. Even before Lugar’s unceremonious exit from public life, the Tea Party and other...
Lugar and Mourdock
~by Sam Wilkinson This was the quote that got me: “If the GOP is going to win elections, it’s going to win them fair and square with real Republicans, not fake ones.” That’s from...
Another Country Club Republican Bites the Dust
This time it’s Sen. Dick Lugar [R-IN] getting the Tea Party ax in the primary. Dick Lugar is the type of Republican who Democrats love although seldom actually vote for. If you’ve got a...
In Which I Discuss Jonathan Franzen’s Remarks at Length
Speaking recently at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia, American novelist, Jonathan Franzen, attacked what he identifies as the impermanence of ebooks. His following remarks are what Andrew Sullivan recently dismissed as “Wieseltierian piffle,”
One, Two, American Dream
Tom Van Dyke’s recent post on how we’re not so good at math when it matters reminded me that we’re not so good at math when it matters. When linguists first began investigating tribal...
We wouldn’t be in this mess if John McCain had won in 2008
We’d probably be in all sorts of other messes if McCain had won the presidential election in 2008, but I think in many ways we’d be in a very different pickle than the one...
School reform, Benton Harbor, and the Tea Party
Contra John Cole, I don’t think the libertarian reaction to Benton Harbor is really all that important. But I think Jason is missing a fundamental piece of the puzzle in his response as well....
