Trying To Understand The Tea Party, Ctd

Kevin Drum counters J.M. Bernstein's dependency theory with polls showing that tea-partiers are wealthier than the average American. He concludes that the current movement is nothing new:

[T:]hey're the usual reactionary crowd that goes nutswhenever there's a Democrat in the White House and they're looking forsomething to be outraged about. And right-wing media and the RepublicanParty have decided (correctly, I think) that banging on about thedeficit is a handy way to gin up opposition to...