re: #303 MsJ

They are hopelessly delusional.

No they are not. Tomorrow morning they will get up, look at the numbers and start planning for ‘18. This is just the beginning. They just a took a very hard punch in the mouth, like we did a year ago. Now they will plan their counterpunch.

But they have some major disadvantages, and they start with Drumpf. They must decide whether to embrace him, which looks like a losing proposition right now, or run tangentially on the state and local level hoping their gerrymandered districts can fend off the advantage the Dems have shown in their GOTV success.They are in a pickle, for sure.

I imagine their best Plan A is to double down and attack anything and everything Dem. That means gearing up their media to turn the volume up to eleven and see what sticks. But demographics and a softening of opinion in the middle toward social issues will not help them.

If, by spring, the Rs haven’t passed any of their policy packages (and that’s a real possibility after tonight), they will look to some kind of Plan B. I think the tax reform bill, as presented, is probably dead.

The ant mound has been kicked over, and there’s a lot of flop sweat out there right now.