The Tea Party is basically dead. It was a wave that peaked in 2015 and then came quickly crashing down. The candidates it elected to office have become generic Republicans now. It’s biggest legacy is the internal damage it did to the GOP, which in turn paved the way for Donald Trump to become the Republican presidential nominee.
@Call_Me_Jay I think @RedDeerGuy1 knows that the Tea Party wasn’t a separate party. But they did run their own candidates, even challenging establishment Republicans in various primary elections. So there was a Tea Party. It’s not like they had to exist separately to exist at all. You even admit as much by saying that they exist as a faction of the Republican Party.