Journalism prof’s beyond stupid WaPo op-ed: Did the Tea Party kill JFK?


A journalism professor (what a, uh, surprise) at the University of Texas has found the roots of the Tea Party, and they go clear back to Dallas, Texas in 1963. This story is such a reach that it has stretch marks:

If today’s extremist rhetoric sounds familiar, that’s because it is eerily, poignantly similar to the vitriol aimed squarely at John F. Kennedy during his presidency.

And just like today, Texans were leading what some of them saw as a moral crusade.

To find the very roots of the tea party of 2013, just go back to downtown Dallas in 1963, back to the months and weeks leading to the Kennedy assassination. It was where and when a deeply angry political polarization, driven by a band of zealots, burst wide open in America.

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