Unjust Comparison

Here's a letter to the Washington Post:

Jim Hoagland ends his otherwise fine column on South Africa by comparing American Tea Partiers to apartheid-applauding Afrikaners ("Ex-president de Klerk teaches the inspiration of South Africa," June 6).

This comparison unjustly smears the great majority of Tea Partiers.  Is Tea Partiers' judgment that Uncle Sam's scale and scope have become too large really hateful?  Is their opposition to nationalized health-care and to bailouts of Wall Street and of...