I could have sworn it wasn't long ago that the media were telling us the Republican Party was in the midst of such a total fiasco, it was collapsing upon itself and it might ultimately fade into oblivion. Why yes. It was about a week ago. We were told that the nomination of Donald Trump was going to do the GOP so much damage that it would cost it control of the House and the Senate, and would cascade all the way down to the state level where governors and state legislatures would also slip away from Republicans.
