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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (200475)9/7/2012 3:15:43 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 542004
 
Let's drop the word "fascist" out of the conversation because it's overloading it. And makes it hard to talk.

My point is not easily substantiated; nor is yours. It would take some serious research.

But here's one sort of quasi experiment. The tea party movement only arose after Bush left the presidency. It's clearly a phenomenon of the Obama presidency. Moreover, as we all know the items that led to the present debt structure were put in place by Bush--early tax cuts, two wars, medicare drug coverage, and so on. Yet that didn't bring the tea party out.

Only the arrival of Obama. And, if one looks at policy, Obama's deficit directed policies are far more in line with tea party aims than Bush's were.

My point is they, the tea party folk, see Obama's governmental incarnation as "not their sort of folk" to put it as mildly as I can. Whereas they saw, at the time, the Bush one as "their sort of folk."

This is my point about nativism.
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