GOP poised to gerrymander its hold on power -- Democrats fall short in nearly every key state

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25. I hope that's the worst we can expect...

But even that is dangerous. If government doesn't provide people what they expect out of it due to gridlock, they lose faith. We now have two diametrically opposed views of what this country is and should be. They're irreconcilable and still diverging. The ironic thing is, our government has checks and balances designed specifically to tamp down such passions and chart a middle course of compromise, but that might be its downfall once again. There's just no compromise with Trumpers and the modern Republican Party. We've tried for nearly 2 decades now and failed. We've not seen this much distance between the two dominant schools of political thought in America since the 1850's.