The Tea Party movement should be inspired by Britain, where leaders unveiled an emergency budget that includes 25 percent cuts in government spending and the lack of popular backlash shows that bipartisan efforts toward fiscal responsibility are important to voters.

The significance and potential of the Tea Party movement can only be understood by examining populism in its unique manifestation in the United States, where its history is both consoling and cautionary about this modern populist movement.

The tea party is hostile toward the New Elite, charging that elites are isolated from mainstream America and ignorant about the lives of ordinary Americans. Those allegations have merit.

The ideal of an "American way of life" is fading as the working class falls further away from institutions like marriage and religion and the upper class becomes more isolated.

The Right should ask itself why what was called "the Reagan Revolution" twenty-five years ago is being apparently swept away with such ease by President Obama.

The steady stream of anti-Europe invective from President George W. Bush and others in the White House has continued apace.

Europe is strengthening its collective consciousness and character and forging a clearer sense of interests and values that are quite distinct from those of the United States