[lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 3 14:07:09 PDT 2010


On Nov 3, 2010, at 4:55 PM, SA wrote:


> The bottom line is that *the TP has already succeeded*. You have to put your head in the sand not to see it . On the one hand, they've elected scores of people to Congress (though not some of the fringiest ones).

But this was an entirely predictable midterm result: normal losses plus premium for shitty economy. The TP extremists mostly lost. How is this so extraordinary?


> Go back and read what the pundits were saying. The centrist Broder types believed Obamism was the wave of the future.

Every election is the wave of the future - until the next one.

Doug



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