Afternoon Must-Read: Sean Trende: What Cantor’s Loss and Graham’s Win Mean
Sean Trende: What Cantor’s Loss and Graham’s Win Mean: “Watch Dave Brat’s interview on Fox News here…
…He is not Tom Tancredo; immigration reform is not his main focus. He’s hitting a lot of the themes that… in many ways echo the Democratic Netroots’ discontent with “Wall Street Democrats” in the mid-2000s (a discontent that led, in part, to Obama’s victory in the 2008 primaries, to the discomfort of some in the Democratic Leadership Council)…. The GOP base is frustrated over the direction of the country… a large portion of that frustration is directed at the Democratic Party, and Barack Obama in particular. But it is also directed at the party establishment…. When pundits say that the Tea Party seems like it is more interested in defeating Republicans than Democrats, they aren’t entirely off base. They just miss the reasoning behind that animus toward the GOP establishment…