Apologists for the Tea Party like to claim that it’s a new, grass-roots movement aimed at reducing the size of government and promoting a non-partisan, American political agenda. The truth is radically different: it’s just a warmed-over version of the usual white, conservative, evangelical, Christian Right political agenda . . . The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government . . . So the primary concern of Tea Baggers is to mix religion and government — which means getting their brand of Christianity injected into government in more ways. In short, their Christian Dominionists to one extent or another. Read more . . .