TeaBag Party: ‘Extremism In Defense Of Failure’

Beginning by writing “something is seriously wrong with conservatism,” McCarthy offers a surprisingly honest evaluation of the conservative movement, asserting that since Ronald Reagan left office, the Republican party and conservative movement have been largely unable to secure serious political victories of any serious consequence. Claiming, as conservative defenders often do, that George W. Bush was not a conservative, he goes on to examine the history of factional development throughout the right, culminating in what he describes as the purely reactionary extremism movement that is the tea party.