On both sides of the Atlantic and at every point on what still purports to be the political spectrum, the media love the Tea Party, because the Tea Party confirms their every prejudice about the lower middle class in provincial America. The coverage is an extended, elaborate form of laughter.
That is as true of Fox as it is of anyone else. Indeed, almost the whole of Fox's output is a very extended and very elaborate form of laughter at the lower middle class in provincial America.
Meanwhile, I am told that the Republican Party, feeling that the joke has now worn off, will be moving towards open primaries, and towards the delegate-splitting employed by the Democrats in Presidential primaries, in order to prevent any real takeover by what was, after all, the electorally unsuccessful Tea Party.
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I always imagine that the plutocrats that actually run the GOP laugh at the lower middle class Republicans that vote for them. They aren’t so stupid as to not realize that their policies hurt these folks. But I think the Democrats have the same problem. Rahm Emanuel apparently called liberals, well, I don’t want to swear, but let’s say he said liberals were “really stupid”
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