Obama And 'The New Party'

For all of its political success and continuing growth, the conservative Tea Party is still paying a heavy price with the media. Some polls show that 43 percent of the public holds an unfavorable view of the Tea Party. A Sunday New York Times book review just last November by historian Kevin Boyle compared Tea Party activists, particularly religious ones, to the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis. Somehow, that got past the editors without comment.
Less acknowledged is The New Party, founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor and Joel Rogers which proudly proclaimed its mission to push the Democratic Party further to the left by electing leftist or socialist candidates. From the beginning, the Chicago Chapter of The New Party was composed of assorted Socialists, Communists, Marxists, and Trotskyites. Operating under the quaintly named “Committees of Correspondence,” the Chicago Chapter of The New Party supported candidate Barack Obama, one of its own members, in the race for a vacant seat in the Illinois state senate. Obama’s victory was bolstered by left leaning Chicago Democrats as well as ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.


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