ROSS DOUTHAT: The Evaporating Democrat Majority. “These results are an implicit rebuke to an entire “past is prologue” school of political analysis and strategy, which looks at existing trends and assumes that they can only continue, watches winning strategies and assumes they can be perpetually repeated, projects demographic patterns forward and then passes judgment on today’s politicians from the vantage point of a still-hypothetical 2035.” Just the usual “wrong side of history” lefty propaganda, exploded as usual.

Related: Why the GOP Blowout Is So Scary for Democrats. But what kind of putz thinks that Sarah Palin is an “agent of intolerance” comparable to Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson? Oh, right, this kind of putz.