[CMClay]

I'm a huge Pat Buchanan fan.
having said that, he needs to brush up on his history:

Conventional wisdom has it that the 1773 Tea Act - a tax law passed in London that led to the Boston Tea Party - was simply an increase in the taxes on tea paid by American colonists. In reality, however, the Tea Act gave the world’s largest transnational corporation - The East India Company - full and unlimited access to the American tea trade, and exempted the Company from having to pay taxes to Britain on tea exported to the American colonies. It even gave the Company a tax refund on millions of pounds of tea they were unable to sell and holding in inventory.
Tea Party Protest

[Theodore R.]

"Boston Tea Party" has become a synonym of opposition to tyrannical government. Pat was not specifically referring to the issue of tea in 1770-75. John Adams called that "tea party" the "grandest event which has yet occurred since the controversy with Britain opened." It was a step along the way to freedom.

Similarly, we could not say that runaway federal judges are far more tyrannical today than were the British king, Parliament, and bureaucrats of 1775.