The Tea Party is winning the war on corporate welfare

The GOP has long been the party of Big Business. That may be changing.

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The political punditocracy just can't seem to settle on the conventional wisdom about the Tea Party.

Eric Cantor, a safe incumbent facing a gadfly challenger, loses his primary. The Tea Party reigns supreme! Then Thad Cochran, an endangered incumbent who trailed in the first round of balloting against an upstart challenger, wins his. The Tea Party is dead!

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.