We are first-hand witnesses of what figuratively may be called the patients running the asylum and what in fact is atheism run amok – tyranny. May the fire of this movement burn out the dross and purify our country like gold for a better future than our recent past.
Fire that is not put to a specific purpose, just burns out its fuel while generating heat and light, and otherwise does nothing useful.
Just "burning out the dross" does nothing but leave a political vacuum that will be filled by whoever is fastest to occupy the empty space.
The Tea Party movement has to figure out a way to get those empty spaces filled in the right way. It need not become a party to do that, any more than the conservative movement of the Reagan era had to become one. It's more a matter of defining the ideas, and offering compelling solutions to the very real problems the Tea Party movement is trying to point out.
As things stand now, the Tea Party seems to offer no coherent set of ideas for how to fill those gaps -- which leaves them open for people and policies that are even worse than what we have now.
This is the very same dynamic that has caused the conservative movement to be in such trouble -- we devolved into a group of folks who were "against," not only what the left wanted, but also what various constituent members of the broader movement wanted. Nothing "for." And the Democrats have handed us our asses.