David Brooks has a good discussion of the Tea Party movement in his most recent op/ed at The New York Times.
Brooks doesn't really know what to call these people, but to anyone familiar with Walter Russell Mead's spectrum theory of American politics, it's obvious that the tea party movement is made up mainly of Jacksonians. Brooks, a Jeffersonian, is uncomfortable with that:
Personally, I’m not a fan of this movement. But I can certainly see its potential to shape the coming decade.
I'm definitely a follower of Mead's theory. Read about it and familiarize yourself with it, and see if you don't agree that Mead may be right. For further reading, Mead has this fine article about how Barack Obama fits into the spectrum, and Mead's theories are more fully detailed in his book Special Providence.
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Brooks gets downright ridiculous here. " The educated class believes in global warming, so public skepticism about global warming is on the rise. The educated class supports abortion rights, so public opinion is shifting against them. The educated class supports gun control, so opposition to gun control is mounting."
Does he really think that ordinary folk base their opinions on being contrary. This is just about the stupidest thing he's ever written.
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