She rose with the Tea Party, a veritable True Believer, and as the political winds change (as crowds huddle for warmth in Zuccoti Park) she is falling with it, too. She is the Tea Party - its grassroots, its astroturf, its rallies, its muddled history - personified. In this election, Bachmann is not a person or a politician so much as she is a signifier. So, like many emotionally driven decisions, the movement has its hands tied: you're going to have very little success arguing for smaller government when what you really want is to leverage government as a cultural gatekeeper. Every day core conservatives wake up in a country that doesn't feel like it belongs to them. Because when Hollywood is liberal and the majority of people who work in media are as well, it doesn't matter whose in the West Wing.
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Koch-funded, liberty-driven, what the Tea Party really wants is not smaller government (though they would certainly love that), but an America that looks more like the one in its head: one without gay marriage, one without abortions. The Tea Party started with a general sense of economic resentment, stated a few policy goals - notably the Cut, Cap, and Balance amendment - before it became clear (through, among other things, polling) that what they really cared about were social issues. And so Bachmann is the perfect representative for the Tea Party.