My guess is that there is a good possibility that things will look a lot different in a year or so.

The Democrats won a short-term lease on Congress. Their actions going forward will determine whether or not this is just anti-Trump voting, or a longer-term change in how voters select candidates for office.

Stated differently, what do the Democrats plan to do to retain Iowa, Kansas, the Carolinas, Texas, etc?

imo, they need to change the voters' views from anti-Trump to pro-Democrat ...

@#6 ... All the sane Republicans were primaried or otherwise removed from the Republican body politic decades ago. ...

I'm not yet convinced about the "decades ago" aspect.

But I'll generally agree that since the Tea Party, the GOP seems to have taken on a major turn towards sucking up to the uber-wealthy.

@#8

And, as I have stated previously, it was the ascent of the Tea Party within the GOP that led to my change on party registration from Republican to Unaffiliated here in CT.

(CT has an Independent Party that seems to align itself with the GOP more often than not. That's why I went to the Unaffiliated designation in my voter registration.)

Of course, that prevents me from voting in any primaries here in CT.

So my opinions don't count in primaries. ...