OK, then how has the Tea Party become divisive and useless? What is divisive and useless about demanding that the Oligarchs stick to the Constitution?
I used to be a member of the local Tea Party and am still on their mailing list, but when it got to Dick Armey and the Koch brothers, the message became more about hating liberals rather than reducing the size and power of the Federal government and keeping all government fiscally responsible. When the Tea Party started calling people "RINOs", I was out. Just because someone disagrees on an issue or does't toe the "party line" doesn't make them a traitor, a Republican-in-name-only, a Liberal or anything else. To do so is
divisive. The Tea Party has become useless because they've driven so many conservatives away, they've hamstrung themselves. Now, because of their extremism and actions, the odds are Hillary, one of the most loathsome Democrats to ever run for President, will likely win the election in November. Ergo, the Tea Party is
useless because they castrated themselves giving the Democrats power by default.