IT’S THE NARRATIVE, STUPID. Never mind that it's an absurd narrative.

[T]ea partyers also skew toward middle age or older. That's the tell. Most came of age in the 1960s, an era distinguished by widespread disrespect for government. In their wonder years, they learned that politics was about protesting the Establishment and shouting down the Man.

Um, I qualify, I guess, having turned 21 in the 60’s. But most of the Tea Party leaders are much younger than I. Sarah Palin, for example, was born in 1964. Unless she was very precocious, “coming of age” in the 60’s would have been very difficult.

The tea party is a harbinger of midlife crisis, not political crisis.

Oh, come now. This statement is self-fisking.

The partyers are essentially replaying the '60s protest paradigm. (We're aging boomers ourselves, so we know it when we see it.)

I love the parenthetical. We were idiots in the 60’s, and because we're still idiots, the “tea partyers” must be as well. News flash, guys -- the rest of us grew up; you didn’t.

Linked from Hot Air.