Its being downplayed by the left – at their own peril:
It hasn’t taken long for Democrats to succumb to the same arrogance that helped tank Republicans last year.
Just as conservatives once mocked the online wave that helped Barack Obama surf into the White House, liberals are now heaping scorn on the tea party movement. This Web phenomenon may bring tens of thousands of small-government conservatives to tax day rallies across the country Wednesday. They Twitter. They Facebook. They blog. They mail tea bags to Congress.
It’s an outgrowth of the tax-revolt movement that has been simmering on the libertarian right for years. But the idea got new life as conservatives, upset at the scope of the Obama agenda, passed around online a clip of CNBC personality Rick Santelli railing against the president’s mortgage bailout.
I wouldn’t say that Democrats have succumbed to arrogance – they have been naturally arrogant for decades now. Their presumption is that power is theirs as a birthright and that any GOP interregnum is a mere error by the American people. To Democrats, the world has been corrected – Democrats are in charge, and Democrats will always remain in charge, as it should be. There are still plenty of liberals who are actually looking forward to strong Congressional gains in 2010 – because that is what should happen, because that is the only smart thing for the people to do, and they have now awakened from their GOP stupor. The Democrats are acting like an arrogant, out of touch ruling class because that is what they were, even when they were in the political minority…they viewed themselves as a government-in-exile.
How soon and how strong the reaction against this will be remains to be seen – but the reaction has already started, and it might end up astounding everyone next year.
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