Tea Partiers

Tea Partiers are adherents of the Tea Party movement, a U.S. political movement rooted in constitutional originalism and fiscal conservatism. Claims characterize them as treating the U.S. Constitution as a sacred, quasi-religious text and as rejecting pragmatic/calculative approaches to governance in favor of ideological conviction.

Claims that use this term

• Tea Partiers reject calculative solutions and accept inevitable failure
• Tea Partiers treat the Constitution as a sacred text akin to the Bible