At 10:03 AM 11/5/2010, Chip Berlet wrote:
>Forget social science, it is the correct political line that matters!
Tea partiers are more more likely to be racist. Who knew? This still doesn't connect the dots to white racism against Obama explaining.... what exactly?
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Intensity. There was a great deal of hate from Republicans against Clinton, and the anti-tax pathology has been powerful for decades, and the populace in all nations most of the time 'supports' their rich elite (which is why exploitation and misery do engender resistance ordinarily), but the appearance of a special 'movement' with a _name_ has occurred under a Black President. That gives intensity and a (silent) aid to agitation and recruitment.
Carrol