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« on: December 10, 2010, 03:54:45 AM »
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/may/27/tea-party-jacobins/?pagination=false

A better article, which shows how the Tea Party is a very Jacobin movement which has been developing for decades due to two revolutions: The individualist revolution of the 1960s, and the greed/Let government leave me alone movement/feeling of the 1980s/Reagan Era.
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