Remember how precious it was when they'd call themselves "the party of ideas"? They don't even bother hiding any more that they're just the party of anti-liberal.

Basically, they let us do all their thinking for them.

The nightmare vision is that there's a pendulum swinging, and due to coriolis forces, we're doomed to circle the drain...one or two terms' of a Presidential administrations make some progress, then another populist/cryptofascist/ultra-rightwing cabal gets another shot at power, and spend all their time just undoing what the previous administration did.

Forever.

Circling the drain. Forever.

We have to think beyond the next election.