In their book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson reported that many Tea Partiers were better educated than the average American, and extremely well-versed in the workings of government. Ironically, though, because their heightened engagement in politics made them avid consumers of Fox News and other right-wing propaganda, they were also extremely well-versed in batshit-crazy fever dreams that overrode their rational faculties.
