big tent

The big tent is working this time around.

The fact that the protests were so white is, clearly, a bad thing for Democratic organizing: We need everyone under our big tent to turn out.

I think that this is supposed to be the big tent “We’re for the people” party.

People are talking about a democratic Tea Party, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it, frankly, even if not all of those candidates win, it sends a message, and it says, “You took the big tent and you just shifted it right, and you left all these people out in the sun.”

Or, as a student with an American flag and a Jews 4 Civil Liberties sign said of the chant: “I don’t love sharing a foxhole with them. But you’d like there to be a big tent for the extraordinary rendition of journalists.”