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Brooks and Ryan’s false choice
The Economist
Tea-party Americanism is a blend of elements taken from conservative revisionist historians, Rush Limbaugh, evangelical Christianity, Ayn Rand novels, Fox News, and right-wing magazines and think tanks. The rhetoric of free markets and small government is certainly a salient part of tea-party Americanism, but it is deployed largely in identity-defining contrast to the “socialists” in the Democratic Party.
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