ERIC CANTOR *LOSES* PRIMARY!!!

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Brat's going on an anti-Semitic rant in his victory speech right now, quoting the Gospels and saying he is with God.

Link?

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Maybe the Horrible People here aren't hicks per se, but that still doesn't mean they're not bigoted crypto-Nazi neo-Confederate vermin.

I don't think anyone ever denied that.

Good. We fought the Confederate slavers, and we obliterated them. We fought the Nazi murderers, and destroyed them. So why are their partisans in the Republican Party? They must be totally and utterly liquidated.

Deep breaths SimFan!  Breath in and out, in and out.  Now let's try slowly turning down the hyperbole.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I'd argue this had little to do with ideology, particular issues (ex: immigration), etc.  I think most people are simply getting fed up with the way things have been going and are slowly starting to just blindly lash out at anyone that they see as a symbol of "the establishment." People don't agree at all on what the problem is (let alone the solution), but everyone is angry for one reason or another and many in both parties don't feel like they have a way to make their voices heard.  While Reaganfan butchered the concept by trying to twist it into some sort of bipartisan call for a tea-party revolt, he is right that the anger is bipartisan (although I am pretty sure almost no Democrats are angry for the reasons he offers).

This wasn't a national vindication of the tea-party (which remains as nationally unpopular as ever and destroyed its grassroots credentials long ago) so much as an instance in which the right blindly lashed out.  This is the same type of anger that led to the Occupy movement and Elizabeth Warren's victory over the supposedly unbeatable Scott Brown.  On a related note, people like to claim the occupy movement didn't accomplish anything, but it really changed the national dialogue and forced Democrats to start talking about income inequality.  Btw, the only reason the media is trying to act like this was about immigration is that they are desperately trying to find a way to explain this that plays into their red vs. blue America narrative.

TL;DR version: This wasn't about immigration, ideology, or even Eric Cantor.  It was the district's Republican grassroots blindly lashing out at the first high-profile establishment figure on the ballot.