Hoover's Tunku Varadarajan is none too happy about the Tea Party victories this primary season and seems completely at a loss for what to do about it, only calling for "alternative ideas" because "Slogans and scare-mongering won't cut it."
The Tea Party has won its precious primaries. And I am stomping my foot as I write this, because that party has succeeded in handing American democracy back to the floundering Democrats.
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The Tea Party was a great conservative and libertarian engine: I use both concepts, conservative and libertarian, because the activists are not ideological purists. Some want this, some want that, and some want who-knows-what. Tea Party-supporting Americans are not identical. I have met several, and I have yet to be able to plot a reliable graph based on their politics.
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