Tea Party Vs Dinner Party
Will Collier has the lowdown:
Frum has always loved the idea of playing Cassandra; his last big splash came from the polemic “Dead Right” in 1994, with similar arguments for shutting out the conservative base of the GOP in favor of elite opinion. As noted previously, this particular call to disarm was delightfully thrown on history’s ash heap less than three months after its publication, when the Tea Party Conservatives of that age overthrew a four-decades-entrenched Democratic majority in Congress. Not much of anybody credited “Dead Right” as being a catalyst for the Republican Revolution–but one Rush H. Limbaugh, III, a Missouri junior-college dropout and former D.J., was widely touted at the time as “the majority maker.” It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if that still sticks in the craw of the Yale-and-Harvard-approved Frum.
Maybe that’s what it all comes down to: they’re losers, they’ve always been losers, and they remain incapable of putting together the majority they’re always crowing about, but have never been able to actually produce. So they attack the supposed “rubes” as balm for their own egos. Will’s conclusion is priceless:
The Dinner Party Conservatives held sway during the election, doing their part to drown out opposition to The One. Now that the emperor is in place and allegedly clothed, the day of the Tea Party Conservatives has arrived, and their voices are getting louder by the dollar.
So tuck into that arugula while you can, boys. While you’re reaching for the finger bowl, the rest of us are headed down to the harbor.
Yes indeedy.
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