Time Magazine Foresees Tea Party Breaking Up Like the Beatles
Time magazine's failure to choose the Tea Party as its Person or Persons of the Year surely reflects a desire that they will cease to be significant any day now. David Von Drehle's “runner-up” article in its Person of the Year issue concluded the Tea Party has already peaked and is well on its way to collapse: “The Tea Party is a hot brand, but there's no one in power to enforce the trademark. Now that the bailouts are history and Democratic hegemony is broken, what does it stand for? It's a sign of the incredible velocity of politics these days that the colossus of 2010, a movement not even two years old, is already facing an identity crisis.” Von Drehle tried to compare the Tea Party to Beatlemania — which is a goofy analogy, considering they were rock's hottest band for six years. But he was wishing and hoping for a breakup: In a sense, identifying with the Tea Party movement was like catching Beatlemania in the 1960s. People were drawn in for different reasons — the beat, the haircuts, the lyrics — and great gulfs of taste divided the John fans from the Paul fans, the George fans from the Ringo fans. read more
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Time Magazine Foresees Tea Party Breaking Up Like the Beatles
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