[lbo-talk] Greenwald on Tea Party Movement was weimar shadows

Left-Wing Wacko leftwingwacko at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 08:07:36 PST 2010


Greenwald portrays the Tea Party movement as just a re-branding of the Republican Party. Maybe he's partly wrong.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/07/palin/index.html

<http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/07/palin/index.html>A snippet from the article:

All of this underscores both (a) the total incoherence of the "tea party movement" and (b) how it is, at bottom, nothing more than a cynical marketing attempt to re-brand the right wing of the Republican Party under the exact same policies and principles which defined it for the last couple of decades. As I've noted before<http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/22/beck/>, there are many individual participants in this "tea party movement" with valid populist grievances against the sleaze and corruption of both parties in Washington, but it's all being directed towards a pedestrian goal that has nothing to do with any of those sentiments: namely, the re-empowerment of the Republican Party in completely unchanged form.

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>wrote:


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