Where Have All the Tea Partiers Gone? Long Time Passing

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Donald Trump might win the election.  I think he is the least of four evils but make no mistake about it,  Trump is no tea party candidate.

The cornerstone of the tea party movement was opposition to the bank bailout and Obama stimulus.  After all, the TEA stood for “taxed enough already” and tea party activists (correctly) said that the real level of taxation was federal spending (what isn’t paid by tax revenues is borrowed, adding to the federal debt and increasing inflation).

My high school classmate Vince Lanci, a successful commodities trader was interviewed by Kitco about gold prices.  He predicted that Trump would attempt a federal infrastructure spending program which will make Obama look as frugal as Ron Paul :

“He is a builder/contractor at his core and he will SPEND on infrastructure like a drunken sailor. He will try to pass a stimulus package that makes FDR look like a piker,” Vincent Lanci said. “Imagine handing the U.S. Treasury to a real estate developer? … Sky (literally) is the limit.”

This will be deliciously ironic to me when it happens.  I promise you that I will oppose the Trump stimulus package and laugh at the justifications offered by the “patriots”.  Obama’s “shovel ready” jobs program was wrong, as will Trump’s be.

In many ways, Glenn Beck will be proven right.

 

 

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    There are a lot of things wrong in that article and some things which are misunderstood. To wit:

    “They come from Pat Buchanan’s nativist paleoconservatism, Ron Paul’s libertarianism, the rape-y Manosphere, the Gamergate underground, and other subcultures”

    This fringe ‘movement’ didn’t “come from” Buchanan and Paul. This fringe ‘movement” came from frustration with poor employment prospects and political correctness. For example, it’s “intellectual leader” saw the injustice served upon the Duke Lacrosse team and got angry.

    The same goes for Black Lives Matter. They don’t “come from” Van Jones, Alinksy, or Cornel West but they find there way there because of low job prospects and legitimate instances of being targeted by government.

    These two fringe movements “come from” big government. They “come from” corrupt government. They “come from ” government picking winners and losers and they know it’s unfair. Big government survives by picking winners and losers then pitting the losers against the winners.

    Return government to its proper role, size, and scope and these 20 and 30-somethings will get busy investing, producing, and selling stuff together instead of fighting one another

  2. “These two fringe movements “come from” big government. They “come from” corrupt government. They “come from ” government picking winners and losers and they know it’s unfair.”

    Sorry, I am not buying it. Are you saying that government was too big in the 1860’s and that is what caused the rise of the KKK?

  3. Brian,

    Not sure I agree there is a definitive explanation, and yours certainly seems to smack of confirmation bias.

    In any event, I hope you share the discomfort I have in watching all of the elected leadership of a major party endorse (albeit unhappily) a candidate who is wearing out his dog whistle to this (yup) basket of deplorables.

    Half-hearted endorsements are endorsements, and the party is going to suffer for the moral compromises it is making to attempt to preserve a unity that is not worth preserving.

    As a McCain 2000 crossover, you won’t see me crossing over again until this game of footsie with scumbags is well and truly over.

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