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The politics of radical euroscepticism is similar to that of the Tea Party. There is the same extremism and unwillingness to compromise, the same incoherent and unquenchable rage, aimed at distant and unaccountable elites. The target of the Tea Party is the federal government in Washington. For the eurosceptics it is directed against a much weaker entity, the fragmented institutions of the European Union. The same violence of language and denigration is now applied in Britain to anyone even mildly supportive of the European Union, which is regularly depicted as a totalitarian monster crushing the free peoples of Europe. Adapted from the source document.

Since the Tea Party exploded onto the American political scene, it has matured and changed, but the differences that now exist within the movement are largely unacknowledged. A more nuanced understanding is called for. Previous treatises have sought explanations for the rise of the movement and focused primarily on its early days. This book, in contrast, focuses on understanding the diversity within the party, challenging the notion that the Tea Party is a homogeneous political movement defined mainly by its ultra-conservatism, regionalism, and rigid political orthodoxy. To accurately depi