Leaving Trump on the ticket will “simplify the GOP’s quadrennial exercise of writing its post-campaign autopsy, which this year can be published November 9 in one sentence: ‘Perhaps it is imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan.’” — George Will

Revisit the 2012 Republican Party “Autopsy”, and we’re back at one  basic outline: Republicans need to figure out how to win some Hispanic votes.
The question coming out of 2016 becomes a sort of — how do you drag a core of Republican voters to respond to this… something about compromise… even in terms of rhetoric.

I have a theory that a feedback loop is clogging up the electorate here.  Sure, there’s the problem when a part of the public steers their news coverage to conservative talk radio and Fox News — and encouraging the — er, loud boisterous voices that come with it.  But more-so than this, it’s the Presidential electorate versus the Midterm electorate — the former receives a 60 plus percent voter turnout, the latter runs into the 40s.  It produces different incentives for the politicos up in each set of elections, and creates the effect coming out of 2010 and, more importantly and especially, 2014 that the American Public… why, everyone must hate Obama and the Liberals as much as I do — just look at these election results.

The good news for the Republicans is that is that this 20 point gap and attendant mid-term drubbings destroyed a Democratic bench, and so the Democratic Senate candidates clump into groups of retreads and hazy not quite theres.  I presume it is likely to come around for these down-ticket races back to something resembling even the barest of coat-tails, as Trump tanks and takes his supporters with him — Donald Trump’s own bizarre feedback loop — he’s speaking before his cheering crowds.  (Please note, to understand the political strategy of Donald Trump from here on out — in reference to a straight news article following the first debate suggesting that Donald Trump is doing “the opposite” of conventional wisdom in winning segments of the vote — this is where we land.)

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