Posted on 10/07/2013 6:24:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Lind was born in Austin, Texas, a fifth-generation native of the state. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with honors in English and History (Plan II). In 1985 he received an MA in International Relations from Yale University and a JD from the University of Texas Law School in 1988. Lind moved to Washington, where after working as Assistant to the Director of the U.S. State Department’s Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs in 1990-91 he became Executive Editor of The National Interest from 1991-94. From 1994-98 he lived in Manhattan and worked for Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic and The New Yorker. In 1998 he became Washington Editor of Harper’s Magazine and moved to Washington, where in the same year he, Sherle Schwenninger and Walter Russell Mead co-founded the New America Foundation with Ted Halstead, with whom Lind co-authored The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics.
Lind has examined and defended the tradition of American democratic nationalism associated with Alexander Hamilton in a series of books, including The Next American Nation (1995), Hamilton’s Republic (1997), What Lincoln Believed (2004) and Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States (2012). Lind has also written two books on U.S. foreign policy, The American Way of Strategy (2006) and Vietnam: The Necessary War (1999). A former neoconservative in the tradition of New Deal liberalism, Lind criticized the American Right in Up From Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America (1996) and Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics (2004).
Did he expect to find people on welfare upset about high taxes?
Mostly hooey. Back to the drawing board, or better yet, why not actually talk to some tea party groups?
We built this nation’s companies, we created its jobs, we fought its wars and we pay most of its taxes. THAT’S who the Tea Party is, Mr. Lind.
Good lord what a load of crap. My poor Michigan ass is a tea partier and that’s just two examples of how wrong he is.
The elitism just oozes from Lind. Hey Michael, there are no second-tier people in heaven and there are no first-tier people in hell.
Two people here who could qualify as poverty stricken if we saw ourselves that way. No excuses or complaints about it. Mom and I attended the first TEA Party rally and still stand on the same ground. I didn’t see a lot of rich neighbors there with us either.
Lind has a sneaky way of denigrating the TEA party. His is an effort to defend the parasites that mooch off the TEA party, which is not on the right, but clearly in the middle of those forced to pay the bills of a bullying government.
My neighbor is considerably wealthier than I am and is a 30 year UAW man and he’s a tea partier.
I am surprised that so many big-corp CEOs are lefties instead of TEA Party types. They’re going to go the way of Reardon Steel if this carp isn’t stopped.
what a bunch of absolute malarky
Tea Partiers depriving others? What a crock. Tea Partiers are all about economic opportunity for all This jack off needs to go soak his head
The word you used is not suitable for this site.
A punk demagogue.
Just one paragraph and it’s filled with lies and inaccuracies.
“While each of the Newest Right’s proposals and policies might be defended by libertarians or conservatives on other grounds, the package as a whole—from privatizing Social Security and Medicare to disenfranchising likely Democratic voters to opposing voting rights and citizenship for illegal immigrants to chopping federal programs into 50 state programs that can be controlled by right-wing state legislatures...”
GW Bush (and others) proposed privatization of SS long before the Tee Party existed.
He cites no proposed law(s) from the Tea Pary that would disenfranchise any voters.
The current law does not allow illegal aliens to vote. It was put in place long before the Tea Party came into existence.
Not all states are controlled by right wing legislatures (probably most are not).
The author is both a fool and a liar.
“Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: Meet the “Newest Right” (You’re richer than average, he says)”
All the Democrats in the House and Senate are too.
Maybe this is John Walker Lind’s (American Taliban) brother......lol.
Admittedly I have wondered about our proclivity to go-it-alone, in regard to generally lax outreach to blacks and Hispanics. I believe the black Baptists of the south are a “gimme”, and also, the tradition of strong family attachments among Hispanics should make them a natural allie to Tea Party concerns. We’re seem to be all crickets on outreach to these demographics, in these neighborhoods.
Cruz is astute and I expect quite able to fold these demographics into at least the basics of our conservative agenda, for a broadened base.
What word would you prefer?
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