Republican leader resigns, blasts Tennessee GOP..... :~)

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24. Encouragement

The Republicans are in the position they were in during the Democratic presidential realigning period of 1932 to 1964, when they saw only Dwight Eisenhower win the presidency during the two cycles of the 1950s.

They will highly likely lose a third consecutive presidential election here in 2016.

A party in a realigning period, which is working against them, will lose enough consecutive cycles before they finally start to ask themselves, Do we care to still be alive?

Once the Republicans reach that point, they will be on their way to being able to get back. (And, with that, their platform will not be so revolting as to make them unviable let alone unelectable. If Rs fail even with that…good-bye to them for good.)

But, in the meantime, the Democrats are really setting the agenda for leadership at the presidential level. They have the advantages. They have the electorate. And they have the map (with top-level-populous states which historically are great at carrying for presidential winners—Illinois, California, New York, etc. have voted for winners beyond 80 percent of their existence while the 57 presidential elections of 1789 to 2012 averaged slightly under 70 percent of carried states).

Let's see a Democratic Party, going forward, be bolder and better!