The “fogies” will push hard the idea that chairmanships should solely be based on seniority, and the Tea Party should be marginalized as soon as possible, so they can go back to business as usual.
This means that the Tea Party candidates will have to be very stubborn to get their due, especially right at the start, when committee chairmanships are determined, especially of the Rules, Appropriations and Ways and Means committees.
The fogies know that if they can exclude them from the leadership and those three committees, the Tea Party will be impotent, and the RINOs will rule alongside the leadership that lets them.
That just means more primaries in the next cycle against the worst offenders.