IRS Scandal Narrative Still Inspires Passion

As something of an amateur historian, my biggest question about the IRS Scandal, which I sometimes refer to as Teapartygate, is how prominent it will be in our historical memory in a few decades.  There are certain controversies about particular incidents that become vehicles for ideological freight and achieve a long life at least among the culturally literate. Think of the Dreyfus affair (l'affaire Dreyfus) or the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti .  The IRS Scandal certainly has an ideological di...