I'll say this for the Pubs, they've created a formula over the past twenty years, and it works. Run campaigns based on generating fear, loathing, and resentment of targeted minority groups and "liberal elites" to gin up their base, spend massive amounts of money to elect candidates from Congress down to statehouses and state legislatures, use control of state governments to gerrymander the hell out of their states to make it extremely difficult for Democrats to regain a majority, and profit. Add in a television "news" network that is nothing but a propaganda machine for the GOP, and to which millions of Americans are addicted, and a POTUS whose following has taken on all the aspects of a cult, and it's a powerful combination, and one for which the Democrats still seem to have no really effective response. Most depressing.