Academic research had long shown "Tea Party" base wasn't necessarily "small government"—it was "government for me."https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/760934603599347714 …
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No, 2016 isn't 1933. It's still terribly dangerous for a political vacuum for "populism" to be filled with the ethno-supremacist version.
By the way, @tanehisicoates argument linking "plunder" and racism is another way of saying "race" and "economy" aren't two distinct topics.
you could remove all economic anxiety and race would still be an issue for Tea Party types.
But since that's not possible, it's a misleading thought experiment. The question is what's the relationship.
I grew up in TN watching it flip from Dem to Rep because of race.
The Tea Party didn't "mix everything with race." The academic left led the charge on that YEARS before the Tea Party existed.
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