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the tea party is an incoherent reactionary populist movement in itself. but it's also become a phenomenon that's being used by groups like american crossroads as an experiment in fundraising and political action outside the control of the republican party. check out the amount of money rove et al have been able to raise. and note the transformations in the tea party line as the midterms have approached. the "outsider" nonsense---which may have been accurate when applied to the tea partiers initially given the preponderance of whackjob ultra-rightwingers mixed with people for whom this was the first experience of political mobilization---but now, it's just a rhetorical tic, something that's part of the identity politics discourse this faction of the reactionary scene uses to speak to and about itself.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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