The Washington Monthly recently singled out yours truly as a typically deluded Republican, “desperately hoping” that Donald Trump’s presidency can be saved by anti-quarantine protests, which we envision as “a renewal of the Tea Party spirit.” This fatuous nonsense is presumably based on a hasty perusal of a column warning the Democrats not to belittle the lockdown protestors lest they provoke an electoral backlash similar to that which they endured a decade ago. The author of the article, Nancy LeTourneau, predictably deploys every demeaning cliché ever circulated about the Tea Party movement and the current protests that she can conjure, including the tired canard that racism has been the animating force behind both.
This charge was routinely used — without a scrap of evidence — against the Tea Party movement. Because President Trump’s predecessor was black, the fallback response to any criticism of his policies was, “RACISM!” LeTourneau unconsciously reveals this as she explains why the anti-quarantine protestors will ultimately fail to wield the influence enjoyed by the Tea Party movement at its height: “Republicans face a few challenges when it comes to reigniting the Tea Party fervor. The most important ingredient is that it is lacking an African American president. There can be no doubt that the previous movement was fueled by racism.” This absence, she concludes, will lead to Trump’s demise.
The obvious flaw in this theory is illustrated by Trump’s 2016 victory. Trump will almost certainly defeat Joe Biden because the former Vice President and the Democratic governors of crucial swing states refuse to take the lockdown protestors seriously. Neither they nor the journalists who fawn over them seem capable of grasping that the voters really do resent losing their livelihoods and personal liberty pursuant to arbitrary stay-at-home orders. Trump, on the other hand, instinctively understands this reality and provoked shrill cries of outrage from Democrats and the media by calling the lockdown protestors “good people,” despite false claims that they are dominated by white supremacists:
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