Christopher Sebastian Parker is a professor of political science at the University of Washington. He is the author of “Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South” and “Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America.” He is currently working on a third book about the forebears of the Tea Party, and how their resistance to progress resulted in the racial conflict that characterizes our present political climate.
