Tunku Varadarajan: In Defense of Tea Parties

Mr. Varadarajan has a great piece over at The Daily Beast.

He hashes out David Brooks' recent column on the movement and the broader elitism and disdain for the movement exhibited by our "betters" in the media and on the Left:

...last Tuesday, in a column titled “The Tea Party Teens,” David made irrefutably clear that he, too—like so many others in the mainstream metropolitan media—is a cultural supremacist.

...In the piece, he sets up a dialectic between “the educated class” on the one hand, and, on the other, a force that he identifies variously as “public opinion,” the “opposition,” and “the Tea Party movement.” The latter, a “fractious confederation of Americans who are defined by what they are against,” are, David writes, reflexively opposed to the beliefs of the educated class (to which he, naturally, belongs). They are, in effect, reactionaries.

...What exactly is this “educated class,” and what leads him to think that those who oppose it are not, somehow, sophisticated?

Full piece here.

For more on the anti-tea party propaganda campaign and its intellectually deficient perpetrators, see my recent post at BigGovernment.com - The Leftist Bullies.