The Patriot Post® · Gerson on Tea vs. GOP

Gerson, who falls into what we would categorize as “moderate,” offers some useful observations about all the Tea vs. GOP infighting: “The Obama era has unleashed a great deal of genuine populist and libertarian energy. But a good portion of it is being channeled into business and fundraising models that depend on stoking resentment against the GOP itself. The result is a paradox. Over the past few decades, Republican members of Congress have become more reliably conservative. This means that ‘Tea Party’ conservatives are revolting against a more uniformly conservative party. The RINOs they hunt are actually an endangered species. So they have transformed tactical disagreements – over, say, a hopeless attempt to defund Obamacare – into defining ideological struggles.”