tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post5830880378038154502..comments2023-10-21T03:07:18.017-05:00Comments on Enclave: The inept leftS-townMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-90947589550587677362011-09-27T08:52:43.495-05:002011-09-27T08:52:43.495-05:00Despite the author's sneering at the TEA party...Despite the author's sneering at the TEA party, it seems to me that what is desired is a left-of-center brand of TEA party <br /><br />(although I don't concede that the TEA party's end game diverges much from that of a non-ideological, worker-center progressive). <br /><br />The initial TEA party stripped away abortion, religion & social issues from the conservative cause, leaving a group focussed on taxes, jobs, and the welfare of people. Would that it continue that way. <br /><br />This is not dissimilar from noting that liberals who focus on social causes like gay marriage, or other identity politics or who over-reach on the enviroment, do nothing to further the cause of larger progressive goals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-33032865496147773762011-09-26T22:35:57.563-05:002011-09-26T22:35:57.563-05:00This is who wrote it. I copied and pasted it from ...This is who wrote it. I copied and pasted it from the NYT link:<br /><br />Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown, a co-editor of Dissent and the author of “American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-45059848169015714862011-09-26T18:26:32.943-05:002011-09-26T18:26:32.943-05:00Who wrote this? No byline.Who wrote this? No byline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com