The Former Tea Party

[Mac_Muz]

Originally Posted by Don Draper

Wasn't your photo from Rome???? LOL

Uh Don I don't have a photo in this game yet.... There is no tea party related violence just occupy...

[Don Draper]

Originally Posted by Mac_Muz

Uh Don I don't have a photo in this game yet.... There is no tea party related violence just occupy...

The point of the thread wasn't about tea party violence or occupy, it was about the cyclical nature of right wing populism.

You guys decided to take it into this absurd direction with your strawman and I took the bait. My mistake for indulging in your off topic buffoonery.

[dreamofmonterey]

Originally Posted by squarian

This article by David Grann, published in 1997, provides some useful perspective on the cyclical nature of far-right populism:



With our usual short memories, we tend to regard the Tea Jacobins as unique, but any notion that Tea is sui generis is easily corrected by looking back just a little.

OP
your thread was hijacked, apparently.

what was the topic?

[tim6624]

Originally Posted by Don Draper

The point of the thread wasn't about tea party violence or occupy, it was about the cyclical nature of right wing populism.

You guys decided to take it into this absurd direction with your strawman and I took the bait. My mistake for indulging in your off topic buffoonery.

You are going to get a heavy dose of "cyclical" right wing populism real soon, give us a report then.

It's strange that you consider the Tea Party "far right".