It’s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...ump_happened_racism_against_barack_obama.html
IMO some of you are too simple in your thinking. You are still attempting to paint the Tea Party into a black/white argument. But you have made it much easier to degrade the movement when you can reduce it to those terms.
From my perspective, people are unhappy with what their world has become. We are looking at the world in political terms as party. It is true that elections have consequences. We are confused in where we wish the power to reside. DO YOU WANT THE POWER TO RESIDE IN SHORT TERM LEADERSHIP OF A PESON OR LONG TERM LEADERSHIP OF A PARTY?
The Tea Party initial intent, IMO, was to remove power from party leadership in DC and restore power to local people. They wanted to replace those in either party whose allegiance was to the party in DC. I won't attempt to offer when this powerful institution evolved, but SCOTUS reinforced it with the decision to make money equivalent to speech. That put powerbroker money in charge of our government and removed the theoretical balance of "one-man-one-vote". Hopefully no one sees any parity to access of representation with the current system. A person with a vote does not yield the political power as does the man who can contribute $100,000. Our political system has gotten away from the original intent. The Tea Party was attempting to real that power back in with numbers who have a common goal to restore the system power back away from access via money and the individuals who are buckling under to that money.
