I think these are the best lines from his article in Rolling Stone:
Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it's going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I've concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They're full of shit. All of them.
They want desperately to believe in the one-size-fits-all, no-government theology of Rand Paul because it's so easy to understand.
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Pure ad hominem. The argument has no merit.
No, it's pure Tenther
There is a natural healthy populist reaction aqainst big government as manifested in the U.S.
Provided the resentment includes one against American military foreign interventions, world policing, enforcing Israel's will, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the proviso an awareness that big government's failure to regulate malign high finance is responsible for the current intractable Great Recession, Tea Party members are on the ball.
I believe I just excluded all but about 20% of the membership. so is the glass a fifth full or a fifth empty.
That part which follows the implicit advice of radio entertainers like Greater Cincinnati's attorney/talk jock/ tea party activist Eric Deters sing the praises of GOP Ohio gubenatorial candidate and job outsourcing Elitist-big banking- war hawk retreads like John Kasich are going to be led down the primrose path of economic and military quagmire.
http://www.ericdeters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=81
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20101002/NEWS010702/10030322/1167/NEWS/Eric-Deters-suing-Whistleblower
Provided the resentment includes one against American military foreign interventions, world policing, enforcing Israel's will, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the proviso an awareness that big government's failure to regulate malign high finance is responsible for the current intractable Great Recession, Tea Party members are on the ball.
In this context, as you noted, "provided" is a HUGE word.
Taibbi's take is far from flawless.
"And Paul's anti-interventionist, anti-war stance was so far out, it made MoveOn look like a detachment of the Third Marines. "Our national security," he declared in 2007, "is not threatened by Iran having one nuclear weapon."
Oh, really Matt? No less a mainstream "moderately liberal" globalist than Thomas PM Barnett has said the same thing.
Taibbi also disdains that White ethnics should feel "oppressed" as a group. So it would do them no good in his eyes to broaden in a group-conscious manner, self-awareness of their actual oppression by high finance, by war profiteers, by the Zionist Lobby, by Big Business job outsourcers etc. Taibbi thus encourages the rootless isolation both caused and utilized by the Elite to continue running roughshod over the populace.
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