Quite Right, My Sheep!

September, 2010

WHY THE TEA PARTY IS ITS OWN WORST ENEMYEveryone is impressed with the growing strength of the Tea Party movement, especially Tea Party-ers themselves. Philosophically, it is a most unstable combination of already unstable elements: libertarian eco­nomics, social Darwinism and Brown Shirt resentment of liberals, blacks, immigrants and—what's this doinghere?—banks. If this were a chemistry experiment being conducted in a base­ment, you'd be advised to start running down the street.But there is so...