Is the Tea Party uniquely crazy, or have conservatives always been like this? In a fascinating essay in newest Nation, Rick Perlstein argues it’s the latter. There have always been reactionary nuts, he says, but now they’re powerful reactionary nuts: The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant
Today’s Republicans Really Are More Radical Than Ever
The Tea Party May Be Changing the Ideological Heart Of the G.O.P.
