Gene Healy on the Tea Party and Its Targets

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Gene Healy reflects on the last five years of the Tea Party, and suggests its poor choice of banner carriers helps explain why the brand has suffered, and libertarian identification with the movement has waned over time. Still whatever errors they've made along the way, the Tea Partiers identified the right target: our profligate political class.