I’ve been saying for ages that the only thing which will pop the GOP’s alternate reality bubble is a Mondale-style humiliation at the polls. I still believe that.

In the short term, they’re going to double and triple down on the fail and the derp, convinced that they have a messaging problem, and that all it will take is a TRUE CONSERVATIVE™ nominee and a Latino version of El Rushbo to win. They won’t learn anything until they nominate a pure ideologue and get their ass handed to them.