Recommended: The Art of the Political Comback

I recommend Adam Nagourney's July 11 article in the New York Times, entitled The Art of the Political Comeback. As he points out, both parties have in recent decades had periods when they seemed to be on the way out as a political force, and time and time again they have reinvented themselves and come back to take Congress and the White House. This may (indeed, probably will) happen again with the Republicans. The only question is whether they can do it quickly, or whether they will need to suffer a decade or two in the wilderness before they come to their senses, dump their more extreme positions, and reinvent themselves closer to the center.