The Grand New Alliance: Our nation’s salvation

Would you like to know what the Left really thinks about the Tea Party movement and the impact it’s having on the GOP and American politics?

I had to turn off the radio — Mark Steyn sitting in for Rush — to give this piece my full attention because one paragraph in, I knew this would be a fascinating journey into the mind of someone who speaks from a ‘bigger government is better’ perspective.

In his piece  “The Grand New Alliance” at the Huffington Post, Rob Stein divides the emerging political movement into three distinct parts or “separate political camps” that have come together in “harmonic convergence”: Libertarians, the Christian Right, and the “disparate legions of Tea Party activists that is transforming politics as we have known it.”

Today, the Libertarian-Religious-Tea Party Alliance is a consciously strategic federation of separate, but inter-connected, wings of a potent right-wing political machine that is energized by the frightening uncertainties of the economic downturn, mobilized in rigid opposition to a President they cannot abide, emboldened by confrontation with some of their historic allies within the broader Republican conservative movement, and fueled by a new avalanche of post-Citizen’s United-inspired financial resources.

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… a grand new alliance that has seized control of the Republican message, become the dominant political voice in the Republican Party, is driving the Republican Congressional agenda, is creating political havoc in selected states, and is orchestrating the theatrical drama of the Republican presidential primary process.

Clearly, the whole of this alliance is far more powerful than the mere sum of its parts. The grand new alliance is not just challenging the leadership prerogatives and institutional dominance of the grand old party, it is methodically positioning itself for a wholesale dismantling of 20th Century Republicanism.

Though Stein makes several points with which I disagree (and you’ll run into them), I believe his assessment of what is taking place in political America is pretty much spot on. However… where he sees the Grand New Alliance as devastation for our country, the “dismantling” of the pillars of democracy, I see it as our salvation.

Read it all.