The party is driven, at this point, by corporate-type clowns who excel at maximizing short-term profit over long-term health, and by religious whackos who truly do not believe their God will allow them to actually ruin anything. Mortgaging the future national relevance of the party at the expense of keeping the House is, in fact, right up their alley. And given the way things are gerrymandered, it could easily take a few Census cycles to flush everything clean.

Shit. What, exactly, does a country do about that?