For those in the U.S. who have been staring at the TV fretting about the Tea Party, Le Figaro columnist Jean-Sebastien Stehli has a soothing message. According to Stehli, the Tea Party represents “nothing but a sinister bubble that will disappear as quickly as it formed.”
For France’s Le Figaro, Jean-Sebastien Stehli writes in part:
These bigots with their oversized waists and gas-guzzling 4x4s have taken center stage when in reality they represent only themselves – which it must be said is not very much. Above all, whatever the outcome of the vote on Tuesday, they represent nothing but a sinister bubble that will disappear as quickly as it formed.
The Tea Party is nothing but an obsessional crises seen regularly in America. Whether it’s the witch trials of Salem or the witch hunts of Joseph McCarthy, the impeachment process of Bill Clinton, Prohibition or the rhetoric of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America, a pact that would pave the way for a Republican majority that evaporated two years later, America loves these obsessions. That’s the fever of the Puritans. They love to see the fever rise so they can delight in the repentance that follows.
Therefore, the new Tea Party representatives will undoubtedly arrive in Congress where one will hear of them for a few months. And like all of those who preceded them, they will eventually disappear, victims of their own incompetence, after voters regain their senses. Not too late, one hopes.
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