I don't think the GOP is in that much trouble. (And, twice in 20 years now, we've seen how deftly they can disrupt the administrations of the people who beat them.) They've locked up the House for the foreseeable future. They're getting all kinds of laws past in the states that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. They've stacked the courts to the point where the DC circuit can rule against recess appointments, and where it looks like the teeth of the Voting Rights Act are about to be pulled. The entire economic debate is being fought out on ground only a smidge to the left of their own choosing. Sensible gun control turns out to be DOA, at least in part because Democratic politicians are afraid of mighty Republican ad buys in contestable states. Campaign finance is a a dead parrot, and the system in situ is vastly to their advantage. Real action on climate change is utterly stalled. So, with all that, the RNC does a little examination of conscience about why they've lost the popular vote in six of the past seven presidential elections, and everybody goes into high-sterics, as my mother used to say.
