Protestors at the Philadelphia Tea Party on April 18, 2009. Source:Wikimedia Commons Editorial note: This essay was originally published in the now defunct journal The North Star, on October 8, 2013, during the US government shutdown crisis. It references several other articles by Horras and others which were published around the same time in 2010, on the website Information … [Read more...] about Slouching Towards Shutdown: Left Reflections on the Tea Party, Then & Now