> Is that so different from the anti-war protests at the end of Bush's
> presidency?
>
> The mass of people have focussed on what the president identified as his
> main goals - the Iraq war for Bush; healthcare and the bailout for Obama.
> These, the priorities of the political elite, prove to be the faultlines of
> disaffection for the inchoate mass.
>
> The core of this movement is less the political mobilisation of grassroots,
> more the expression of popular disaffection with the political process.
How much overlap is there between the teabaggers and the 2003 anti-war movement? I'd be incredibly surprised if it weren't much lower than if they were random samples of the population.