The latest delusion from our friends on the Right is that just underneath the surface of the American public, there's a massive, Obama-hating, anti-government populist revolt just begging to be tapped into and mobilized to bring the Republican Party thundering back into power to continue the Reagan Revolution. They imagine that there's a huge reservoir of untapped anti-stimulus, anti-spending, anti-tax, anti-everything-Obama-does wellspring out there that just needs a leader.
They call this movement the "Tea Party", after the Boston Tea Party, where they honestly believe millions of Americans will imminently rise up and overthrow the hated, failed, criminal, corrupt, evil Obama administration and replace it with God-fearing, Muslim-hating, border-patrolling, tax-cutting, gay-bashing, gun-toting folks beholden to small business owners, megachurches, and Our Founding Fathers.
The movement is ridiculous on its face, of course. Somebody should informed these small minded idiots that after one month of Barack Obama, they're reduced to following Rick Santelli, Malkinvania, and El Rushbo while having fever dreams of overthrowin' that damn Muslim President out on their paintball survivalist weekends.
Somebody should also inform them America already had a populist movement back on November 4 and kicked all these morons to the curb.
But as we've seen this weekend, these infantile jagoffs love playing tea party and freedom fighter and state's rights and other silly, childish games while the country is slipping away, indulging their escapist, paranoid fantasies, and in the end blaming everyone but their own greed for the problems we're in.
That leaves the grown-ups to determine the country's true fate, I suppose.
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