Why the Tea Party? Ask John Kerry.

October 30, 2010 4:41 P.M.
By Victor Davis Hanson


John Kerry once again lashes out at the hoi polloi: “It’s absurd. We’ve lost our minds. We’re in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in. It’s all short-order, lowest-common-denominator, cheap-seat politics.â€