Does Anyone Ever Learn Anything?

The election is upon us, and the predictions of Doom are dire. Jeff Blehar writes that we should expect “no deus ex machina to extract the Republican Party from an electoral judgment fully two years in the making.” Dan McLaughlin, as he reads the tea leaves and sees the Senate map breaking away from Republicans, says that “this looks like a big blue wave — maybe a huge one.”

Conservative analysts nearly uniformly see a Republican bloodbath brewing. It’s going to get bad out there. Get ready.