Tag: tea party

Half-right, in a bad way: David Brooks and the founders’ ugly racial legacy

February 29, 2016

In his Feb. 26 column, “The Governing Cancer of Our Time,” New York Times columnist David Brooks praised the founding fathers in contrast to today’s tea partiers and other zealots for favoring politics over brute force, and compromise over intransigence. He’s partly right in that solving social conflict through politics and compromise is one of… More Half-right, in a bad way: David Brooks and the founders’ ugly racial legacy

Odd couple: Me on the front page, Hobby Lobby on the back

July 3, 2015

Today the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune published a nice profile (by David Dupont) of me and FIghting over the Founders, right on the front page.  The Sent-Trib doesn’t publish on Sundays or holidays, so this is its “Independence Day Weekend Edition.” And, right on cue, just as I point out that people use the founders for their political purposes, there’s… More Odd couple: Me on the front page, Hobby Lobby on the back

Next step, Obama in breeches? Organizing for Action uses Gadsden flag

March 24, 2014

Organizing for Action, the political organization descended from Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, is now giving out bumper stickers inspired by the Gadsden flag that tea partiers have loved so much.  What’s interesting to me is how stylized this flag is.  I think the stethoscope is clear, but the graphic and caption on it wouldn’t make… More Next step, Obama in breeches? Organizing for Action uses Gadsden flag

Five years on, tea party part of the visual landscape

March 10, 2014

The picture on the left accompanied an article in today’s New York Times about young Republicans at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.  The article makes a point of profiling a young Republican with a green-and-orange mohawk.  But to me, what’s more interesting is that it does not comment at all on the man on the right,… More Five years on, tea party part of the visual landscape