All the symbolism behind the Tea Party is that of True Patriots resisting tyranny. Save for the fact that this “tyranny” is a legally and democratically elected government and not a hereditary king across the ocean.

But when one moves far enough out onto the fringe, the designations “right” and “left” no longer really apply. Marxist leftists dream of the day that the state “withers away”, the extreme right wants to see the state shrunk down small enough that it can be drowned in a bathtub.