Douglas Carswell's Blog

What if the Tea Party candidates win?

Looks like Republican candidates selected by the grass-roots Tea Party movement are set to do well in November elections over in America.

Yet here in the UK, our BBC-Guardianista commentariat have been busy telling us for weeks how "unelectable" they all are. Even the dimmest producer must be beginning to see that such a lazy analysis fails to square with how Tea Party-types are nudging ahead of establishment incumbents in state after state.

So how do you suppose our lefty politico-media elite explain it away if the Tea Party candidates win big?

Already - perhaps anticipating the success of small-state, libertarians - we're starting to be told by the self-referential MSM that however successful the Tea Party, it's a "backlash". It's all about "anger", they say.

What if the Tea Party movement is something more than that? Might it not be America's Jeffersonian ideals given a whole new lease of life, and practical dot com applicability, by the age of the internet?

Don't expect any BBC programme makers to see it that way any time soon.

Back to all posts