WASHINGTON ¨C Much of journalism consists, G.K. Chesterton wrote, of ¡°saying Lord Jones is dead to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.¡±
Much of the U.S. political journalism last week consisted of people who have not understood the tea party since its birth saying that it¡¯s now dead.
The loosely organized movement arose as a reaction to the reigning liberalism of 2009 and 2010, just as previous liberal moments in the mid-1960s, late 1970s and early 1990s brought about conservative backlashes.
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