Today’s Christian Science Monitor has a piece on the Tea Party movement and its origins. It has a great analysis, and not just because of the kind words it says about yours truly.
But unheralded operatives, such as Brendan Steinhauser, campaign director for FreedomWorks and author of “The Conservative Revolution,” created the backbone of the movement, establishing websites and Facebook pages that would become populated with fed-up voters.
The CSM is doing a good job covering the movement, unlike some other newspapers that still don’t get it. But most mainstream media outlets are coming along slowly. CNN has aired quite a bit of reporting about the movement, and much of it has been fair.
Hopefully we can continue to build the momentum for the long-term, and reinvigorate the conservative movement the same way that William F. Buckley Jr. did in the 1950′s. This revolution is now entering a new phase, and no one really knows where it will go. But I predict it will make a big impact on the 2010 elections, and more importantly, keep people involved in politics at the local level for a long time to come.
