They didn’t reign in the Tea Party n it evolved into something worse..it seems. I’m no political historian but this faction is gonna be a big deal n may be their demise.
2. There has been a christofascist base in the GOP for decades. They have grown in numbers and more...
powerful since the Reagan admin with the evangelical right backing them up.
Birchers, KKK, minutemen, patriot movement, neo-nazis, militias, Aryan Brotherhood, Army of God, Christian Identity, sovereigns/constitutionalists, dominionists/reconstructionists being the most extremist.
The Tea Party and Trumpist are just rebranded versions of those predecessors.