Do read it all -- it's well the time (and the advertising pop ups, so be warned).Back when the Tea Party was new, I wrote in these pages that it was going to be big -- very big. When it was a year old, I wrote that the Tea Party movement was going to have an unglamorous, but effective future. After the 2010 congressional elections, when the Tea Party put an end to the Obama Democrats' congressional dominance, a lot of people seemed to think the Tea Party was pretty important.
But then, last year, the pundits forgot about the Tea Party movement and started rhapsodizing the Occupy Wall Street movement. The Tea Party was old news -- now it was the Occupiers who were going to change American politics.
That ended once journalists and pundits realized that the scruffy, anarchic -- and often criminal -- Occupy protesters were alienating voters and not accomplishing much. And I wrote here that Occupy Wall Street Gets The Ink, Tea Party Gets The Voters. And that's pretty much how it's turned out.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
The Tea Party, past, present, and future
A look at the future of the Tea Party, based on our successes, by Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit. And not the wishful thinking of people who don't like what we stand for.
