The interesting thing is that there aren’t really significant policy differences between “moderate” Republicans and Tea Partiers. They all want to repeal Obamacare, oppose marriage equality, support slashing government spending even lower, and oppose doing anything about global warming or gun violence. The only significant differences are that Tea Partiers engage in stream of consciousness speaking and don’t worry about alienating people who aren’t white conservative Christians, since they aren’t “real Americans” anyway.