Sequence 3 parts 2010
The Tea Party
I thought many of the arguments against the Tea Party were too easy. Three posts from March 2010 about the movement and the weakest opponents its critics chose to argue with.
The Tea Party Movement
The New York Times’ article on Tea Party ‘founder’ Keli Carender, struck me as an interesting corrective to much of the treatment of the movement as either a Fox News ‘stunt’ or a wing of the Republican Party run by the same old white men with a few token non-males and non-whites. Carendar is apparently…
Tea Party Follow-up
So after my last Tea Party post , I’ve been trying to track down more information about the movement. One interview does not an investigation make. Here’s what I’ve dug up: Evan pointed me to The Next Right. Not the Tea Party, but a similar attempt to reconstitute the conservative party around less jingoistic and racist…
The Weak Man Fallacy