Recommended: The Movement, The rise of Tea Party Activism

I recommend Ben McGrath's piece The Movement, The rise of Tea Party activism, in the January 28, 2010 The New Yorker magazine. Thus far the Tea Party movement is just a bunch (but a BIG bunch) of noisy amateurs with popularist views. If (or more likely when) it gets a few professional leaders it is apt to become a very powerful force in America politics - perhaps THE most powerful force. It is worth paying attention to this movement. It may begin to shape politics as early as the upcoming midterm elections - indeed it may already have shaped the Democrat's recent defeat in Massachusetts.