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Originally Posted by Itse
Are any of those actual splinter movements?
The tea party certainly wasn't.
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I would argue yes. The TEA party ran candidates against Republicans in primaries. It's really as much as you can do in a 2 party system.
The Reform Party and UCP were both parties farther to the right than the traditional conservative parties and ran against them. It didn't take too long for the parties to merge and move further to the right.
Right-wing ideologies usually have strength and power as one of the dynamics. So, it's not surprising that they tend to be pragmatic when it comes to splitting votes and watering down their influence.