re: #120 goddamnedfrank

What he realized was that the Tea Party was deep down was a culturally revanchist and white nationalist reaction to the election of a black President with a foreign sounding name. Everything he’s done has been to exploit disaffected white, mostly male angst over not being able to put black people, brown people, women and gays in their place anymore. It’s entirely about a people who were raised to believe they were the Übermensch raging over their perceived loss of a rightful inheritance.

Obama’s election really made it clear to these people that the days of their dominance are over. In fact, the waning of their influence has been happening for decades. Obama was just the culmination of that erosion. A woman as president will drive them even more nuts.