The Original Tea Partier: Pap Finn

Check out this interesting literary analysis from Seattle's The Stranger blog! The key is that the writer locates the origin of the contemporary "tea baggers" in arguments about race and class and distrust of the government that Twain was able to document as far back as the publication of Huck Finn. Pretty neat. Conclusion: "No new arguments ever come up in American culture, just old ones in new clothes."