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Dave Weigel talks to Brendan Steinhauser of Freedomworks, the group chaired by former Republican Rep. Dick Armey. Steinhauser has a really high opinion of the "Tea Party" protests they've been organizing:
“We’re applying Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ here,” said Steinhauser. “We’re using methods that the Left has used, and that other movements have used, all the way back to the Civil Rights movement. First of all there has to be a real grievance, and that’s what Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King had. That’s what we have.”Yeah, I mean, Obama wants to raise taxes on Americans earning the highest income up to Clinton-era levels while giving everyone else a tax cut. How is that not exactly the same thing as being denied the right to vote, facing state-sponsored brutality and legally enforced racial segregation?
I've made this point before, but there's no end to conservatives claiming black people hold themselves back through a culture of grievance. Meanwhile conservatives complain that a small tax increase on people in the top income tax bracket is comparable to the oppression of the Jim Crow South.
-- A. Serwer
