Obama refused to be the GOP's huckleberry
The Republicans shut down the government and threatened the full faith and credit of the nation because they believed that President Obama would cave.
That was the totality their "plan".
But in following such a course of inaction, they had to dismiss his resolve to stand firm for the American people. They also disregarded the President's mandate by reelection.
They overestimated their own position of governmental power. They relied on their own echo chamber and miscalculated their lack of popular support, which created inaccurate feedback.
They relied on the rantings of demagogues and thoroughly stupid people as guidelines.
They had no plan and in the end, even suicide was nothing more than a bluff on themselves.
Fractured and weakened, the Republican stranglehold on this country is weakening. Not in the deepest of the deep red, but in the soft glowing purple of the nation.
Like any other disorganized gaggle of ideologues, the far right of the Republican party will not take what happened as a sign to play nice. They feel betrayed by their own kind. Fingers are a-pointing and they have plenty of blame in the bag to go around.
The political distillation of the Republican Party will continue unabated. Reasonable GOP voices will find themselves blamed by the more radical factions for this defeat, again, by the Democrats that they still regard as illegitimate.
The next election will spawn more and more outrageous right wing voices, touting nonsense, outright hatred and apoplexy.
These are people who don't forget a perceived offense, and even if they have to cut off their own noses to spite their own faces, they will do so with gleeful abandon
Democrats need to exploit the gift that will be handed to them. Republican gerrymandering has locked up certain districts, but in doing that, they have risked isolation. The victory will lie in turning purple into blue, especially if the GOP rights gambles to turn these districts red by disposing of the "traitors" and replacing them with true believer candidates.
Voters in those purple districts will be appalled by such an outcome, and that's where the backlash against the radical right will have the most salient consequences.
These aren't places that have a complete disdain for the President. They will remember that he not volunteer to become the Republican's huckleberry by singlehandedly gutting his own signature health care reform law. A law that more and more people are finding to their liking.
In spite of a dwindling support base, the far right radicals will try again. They have a little house cleaning to do first. The desire for purity demands it. However, they forget that a direct result of purification creates less volume.
As long as democracy is a numbers game, the Republican's own political distillation will only exacerbate their own diminishing relevance into a minority regional political party that's nothing more than 210 proof of crazy kool aid.
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YOU CAN'T NEGOTIATE WITH LIARS.
