Tag: Tea Party
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Same Old: How the Right Harnesses White Fear (& Religious Fear) for Plutocratic Ends
David Campbell and Robert Putnam have an insightful editorial in today’s New York Times. In Crashing the Tea Party they summarize their study of national political attitudes (from interviews with a representative sample of 3,000 Americans) and shed some light onto unifying themes and motivations of members of the so-called Tea Party. Tea Partiers are…
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The Stakes in this Election: Incredibly High | Mike Lux discusses “The Progressive Revolution”
originally published on October 20, 2010 Welcome to the second interview in our series. This week we feature progressive organizer, strategist, blogger, and author Mike Lux. Mike is the CEO of Progressive Strategies, the Co-founder of Open Left, and he has been active for thirty years on many progressive issues. Mike is the “outsider’s insider.”…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 