Tea Party's Trump test

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party may very well be a sign that the Tea Party is dead. But if the movement is going to revive itself during the Trump era, it’s going to have to pass a very important test.

To start, it’s worth defining in what context I’m describing the amorphous Tea Party. In its best incarnation, the Tea Party was borne out of decades of frustration with the Republican Party due to its failure to deliver on promises to rein in the size and scope of government.