‘The Tea Party, the most welcome political development since the Goldwater insurgency in 1964, lacks only the patience necessary when America lacks the consensus required to propel fundamental change through our constitutional system of checks and balances. If Washington’s trajectory could be turned as quickly as Tea Partyers wish — while conservatives control only one-half of one of the two political branches — their movement would not be as necessary as it is. Fortunately, not much patience is required.’
‘Thanks largely to the Tea Party, today, more than at any time since Reagan’s arrival 30 years ago, Washington debate is conducted in conservatism’s vocabulary of government retrenchment. The debt-ceiling vote, an action-forcing mechanism of limited utility, has at least demonstrated that Obama is, strictly speaking, unbelievable.’
Mr. Will in his latest column of political opinion makes it abundantly clear, please see the above quoted paragraphs, that The Tea Party Jacobins are in full control of the Debt Ceiling debate, all accomplished with a breathtaking précis of recent Conservative Political History, narrated as the victory of The Goldwater Insurgency transmogrified into The Reagan Revolution, following in a great linear path to The Tea Party Jacobins: all completely self-serving, in the manner of political propaganda by the numbers. But then he asks the Jacobins to think and act on that knowledge in a politic way, which is antithetical to their raison d’être, to the very central tenet of the practice of ‘insurgency’, as opposed to the practice of governance. There are a great number of garnishes to enliven this rather stolid recitation of Conservative Triumphalism blended with the tone of a hectoring pep talk: a standard that the great authoritarian Mr. Will has perfected over time, as the possessor of some superior knowledge that the rest of us find baffling, as being in the province of theology rather than that of political science. In this episode, President Obama remains the Great Socialist Vampire sucking the lifeblood out of the Republic, a standard trope of the No-Nothing Republican Party, and Mr. Will presents himself as the good gray Professor Van Helsing, with some strategic advice for defeating this inhuman monster.
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