https://redstate.com/curt_levey/2010/07/21/anti-tea-party-cartoon-reveals-ignorance/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 11 Jun 2026 07:53:51 -0400<![CDATA[In today’s Washington Post, cartoonist Tom Toles argues that the tea party movement reveals itself to be racist by “want[ing] to go back to the Constitution as it was written,” despite the document’s acquiescence in the continuation of slavery. Toles’s cartoon is a particularly hateful variant of a misleading, but all too common, argument that tries to vilify critics of a “living Constitution” and justify judicial activism by pointing out that the Constitution was written in a different and less tolerant time.]]>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:07:01 -0400<![CDATA[Curt Levey]]>https://redstate.com/curt_levey/2010/07/21/anti-tea-party-cartoon-reveals-ignorance-n35568