What "Populist Uprising?": Further Reflections on an "Astroturf Movement" (Part 2) http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/ds290410p.html

The much-ballyhooed Tea Party “movement” that has arisen to absurdly accuse the corporate and imperial Barack Obama administration of “socialism”...claims to be a decentralized, independent, “grassroots,” and popular/populist uprising against concentrated power...The Tea Partyers “anti-government” rhetoric...amounts largely to a selfish and significantly race-biased call for a government that sustains their own petit-bourgeois benefits and privileges while slashing services and programs for the disproportionately non-white lower and working classes.