Yes, the election was a disaster and does not speak well of the state of the country. But just as 1980, 1984, 1988 and 2004 were not guarantees of perpetual Republican hegemony, neither were 1992, 1996, 2008, or 2012 harbingers of a Democratic Thousand Year Reich. R. R. Reno’s very wise advice is (among other things) to calm down and don’t over-interpret the results. Megan McArdle also offers some useful reflections.
UPDATE: The election saved ObamaCare, right? It's not that simple, says John C. Goodman, who argues that the "flaws in ObamaCare... are so serious that the Democrats are going to have to perform major surgery on the legislation in the next few years, even if all the Republicans do is stand by and twiddle their thumbs."
UPDATE: The election saved ObamaCare, right? It's not that simple, says John C. Goodman, who argues that the "flaws in ObamaCare... are so serious that the Democrats are going to have to perform major surgery on the legislation in the next few years, even if all the Republicans do is stand by and twiddle their thumbs."
