His latest column (safe link, goes to HotAir) begins with an offhand premise (not even an assertion, mind you, just an assumption) that the Tea Party wants to re-enact Birth of a Nation, the KKK-celebrating silent film of 1915.

Fine, let me respond in kind. Paul, you may think you're re-enacting Triumph of the Will or Mission to Moscow, but reality more closely resembles Atlas Shrugged or The Road to Serfdom. The welfare state is collapsing, and neither socialist thuggery, nor race-baiting, nor imaginary bonds in the SSTF are going to save it.

This is the Year of the Minarchist -- 45% of GDP is too much government, and that's why the Tea Parties have coalesced into the most important political movement of this election cycle, and perhaps beyond, despite the elites' casting of aspersions running the gamut from inane to insane.