Tea Party Politicians
by digby
These are the people to whom I'm supposed to show respect:
TANCREDO: And then, something really odd happened, mostly because I think that we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who could not even spell the word "vote," or say it in English, put a committed socialist idealogue in the White House, name is Barack Hussein Obama.
The thing is, my feelings aren't hurt by this and I don't crave the understanding of someone like Tom Tancredo. But I do think it's irresponsible to ignore it or pretend that it isn't racist and disgusting. And validating the "regular folks" who cheer this garbage by saying that they are "under stress" is infantilizing them. They know very well what they are saying.
This is the ugly side of right wing populism and if anyone thinks they will be appeased or co-opted by economic appeals they are not seeing what really moves them.
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