New at Reason: Matt Welch on What the Left Can Learn from the Tea Party

September 6, 2011

In his column from our October 2011 issue, Editor in Chief Matt Welch explains how the success of the Tea Party movement offers the left a blueprint for change. For decades politicians like John Boehner trampled on the conservative tradition of limited government. Barack Obama and the Democratic establishment likewise have disrespected several core traditions of the American left. The best way to reassert those values, Welch writes, is not by staying on the Democratic reservation but by refusing to be taken for granted.

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