Like their right-wing opponents, Us Uncut activists tap into Americans' anger toward a system perceived as favoring interest groups over the common good. But they're sensitive about the Tea Party comparisons, writes Ben Adler.
It's an open but dirty secret in liberal circles that their disdain for the Tea Party movement is tinged with jealousy. Having watched Republicans run up the deficit, expand government power, and preside over rising inequality and unemployment, liberals are indignant and baffled that the mass response has come in the form of an anti-tax, anti-spending and anti-regulation movement on the right. Progressives may mock the tri-corner hats and shaky grasp of economics of Tea Party rallies, but they also gaze longingly at the massive crowds and wonder, "Why can't we get this many people to come out?"
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It's an open but dirty secret in liberal circles that their disdain for the Tea Party movement is tinged with jealousy. Having watched Republicans run up the deficit, expand government power, and preside over rising inequality and unemployment, liberals are indignant and baffled that the mass response has come in the form of an anti-tax, anti-spending and anti-regulation movement on the right. Progressives may mock the tri-corner hats and shaky grasp of economics of Tea Party rallies, but they also gaze longingly at the massive crowds and wonder, "Why can't we get this many people to come out?"
Related story on The Daily Beast: Facebook Chat Gets Hijacked
The answer, it turns out, is that turnout...
- 3/4/2011
- by Ben Adler
- The Daily Beast
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