Loyola student Matthew Lamb has written a new post for the College Conservative that’s worth your time.

Why the Tea Party scares liberals

Let’s face it: the Tea Party has liberals scared. If the Tea Party was dying and ineffective, then liberals wouldn’t spend so much time attacking us. So why are liberals scared of the Tea Party? For four reasons:

1) The Tea Party is young. The Tea Party Senators elected in 2010 and 2012 (Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul and Tim Scott (appointed)) have an average age of 46. It’s one thing to attack the Republicans as old and white when Mitch McConnell and John McCain are the faces of the Tea Party; it’s another when Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Tim Scott are the faces of the Republicans.

2) The Tea Party has made progress on traditionally liberal causes. Liberals were traditionally the advocates of civil liberties as it related to issues like spying and wiretapping. But then Justin Amash, a young Tea Party congressman from Michigan pushed an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill to limit the power of the National Security Agency to collect records on citizens. It’s been Tea Party congressmen like Rand Paul, Justin Amash and Ted Cruz who have been leading the fight (with some Democrats too).

Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled in Maryland vs. King that police officers could continue their DNA collection during normal arrests. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), much reviled by the Left, released a statement saying the ruling “expands government power, invades our liberty, and undermines our constitutional rights”. The following day, Thomas Massie (R-KY) condemned the decision on the House floor, saying “I strongly disagree with the five justices…it is an intrusive invasion of privacy and property…unchecked government power…poses real risks to our liberty”

After Rand Paul’s 13 hour filibuster of John Brennan’s CIA nomination, the ACLU and Code Pink publicly thanked him, with Code Pink reportedly sending chocolates and flowers to his office. Code Pink, an anti-war group, has traditionally been a huge supporter of the Democrats but with Rand Paul garnering their praise, liberals are worried about losing even their most far-left supporters.

Read the rest at the link below.