Outcomes:

1. Conservatives now have a reason to rationalize that the 2012 election was stolen - that had tea party activist groups been able to form up and operate their advocacy would have changed the outcome, but because they were illegally suppressed by the left, Obama was re-elected.

2. Any chance of credibly engaging with the right about the way that their partisanship has alienated too many people is now shot. Every died in the wool conservative will now go back to thinking that most Americans think just like him with the exception of a handful of communists in San Francisco.

3. Its a bonanza for big political donors - after firings and hearings and threats of imprisonment, scrutinizing political non-profits will be the third rail at the IRS. 501(c)4 groups will able to operate with impunity.