The Media May Wish the Tea Party Crowd Is Becoming Mainstream, But They Are as Crazy as Ever

[Panich52]

The Media May Wish the Tea Party Crowd Is Becoming Mainstream, But They Are as Crazy as Ever

Don't let the press fool you. Across the country, the wingnut revolution isn't calming down. Behold the insanity.
By Elias Isquith / Salon

... If you look at the way the media’s covered the ongoing “invisible primary” to be the GOP’s next presidential nominee, you’ll see the narrative for 2016 is being pre-written already.

... And because the story after 2012 focused on the Tea Party pulling Mitt Romney too far to the right, the narrative for 2016 will be about the Republican “establishment” throwing its weight around to nominate an ostensibly more moderate, electable candidate. The bland, cautious, managerial Republican Party of yesteryear is back! The crusading, militant and extremist Tea Party is over!

Except, well, it isn’t.

It’s not over in the U.S. Congress, where a shutdown-in-miniature is unfolding between the White House and the Tea Party wing of the GOP. It’s not over in Wisconsin, where a Tea Party-darling governor is slashing the state university system’s funding, changing its mission statement (while lying about it), and fighting tooth and nail to humiliate people on government benefits. It’s not over in North Carolina, where a billionaire-backed Tea Party government is also going after the public university system in its effort to turn the state into Kansas. And it’s not over in South Carolina, where one state representative hopes to mainline National Rifle Association propaganda to a generation of public school students.

Read more:

http://www.alternet.org/media-may-wish-tea-party-crowd-becoming-mainstream-they-crazy-ever?akid=12798.1924881.yl7sf3&rd=1&src=newsletter1031986&t=15

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[Myrina]

1. I think the TP is causing the crazies to come out of the woodwork ...

.... they feel safe, like they 'belong', so they're letting their freak flags fly.

I hope now that daylight's shining on them, the real mainstream can fully assess their insanity and squash the movement like the infected vermin they are.

[pampango]

2. In 2008 Obama seemed to predict the rise of the TP without calling it that.

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-no-surprise-that-ha_b_96188.html