<blockquote><span class="s1">The populist right's instinctive response — the Tea Party — immediately became just another added layer of cronyism. A grassroots corruption. Really, a weed. If the American people have outsourced their self-government to Washington, the conservative movement made another dirty deal, allowing itself to be entertained in outrage carnivals run by for-profit activists. Excepting<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/06/justin-amash-won-on-tuesday-and-then-things-got-interesting-video/"><span class="s2"> the exceptions</span></a>, the populist right's response to dishonesty and graft was to generate another set of swindlers who wear flag-lapel pins, lie to their faces, and help themselves to the cash. </span></blockquote>
via <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/265958/how-the-tea-party-became-as-corrupt-as-the-beltway-it-loathes">How the Tea Party became as corrupt as the Beltway it loathes - The Week</a>.