July 05, 2010
Politics as Performance Art
NP: Rush, "Distant Early Warning (live)"
As a disillusioned conservative, Andrew Sullivan at least tries to make an effort to evaluate new strains from the right to see if they fit better than the current versions. His current line of thinking on the Tea Party Movement describes it as "secular fundamentalism," which he then uses as a backdrop to explain both how it's reactive and not particularly practical:
As a psychological response to a bewildering modernity with lots of least-worst options, this is a powerful force. As a practical politics, it is just performance art.
I think that's as reasonable a summation as I've seen, at least to the extent that you can reduce the movement to very broad strokes. This is a 10,000-foot view, though, and you can probably argue about sub-currents at a more detailed level all you want.
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