I think the most depressing thing for me out of all this is that there seems to be a significant percentage of Americans who do not want what the Republican Party says in plain English it wants do to to America, and yet they refuse to believe the GOP actually means it.

Perhaps this year will go down as the year Crazy went mainstream. The last few cycles, the GOP base nominated a couple goobers who said some crazy shit and lost because of it. This year, there were a couple loons who have openly espoused crazy shit - Joni Ernst comes to mind - and the Media didn’t seem to think it worthy of notice. So somebody who believes in Nullification gets elected in a state that went for Obama twice.