20 years? The Tea Party is relatively new. Rather than “burning to the ground”, they are working on incremental change. The more who join in, the faster that change will come.
Gimme a break! The whole "let's change the Republican Party from the inside" mantra has been spouted over and over again since Bush 41 (beginning when Perot ran against him). And every election cycle since then, we've been told by the Party-first people to "hold our noses" and vote for "lesser evils" as part of that slow inside change. It hasn't happened, and it won't happen with the same professional, unelected party hacks in charge of the machinery and content with the status quo.
With "leaders" like Boehner and McConnell doing everything they can to freeze out the TEA party, it's high time to send the corrupt, decrepit GOP to the dustbin and start over.
Period.