“THE SILENT MAJORITY:” “I’ve suggested before that 2016 is beginning to look more and more like 1968,” Bill Kristol writes at the Weekly Standard. “This is true in terms of the presidential contests—on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders is Eugene McCarthy, Hillary Clinton is Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden will be Hubert Humphrey, and (the big question!) Elizabeth Warren could be Bobby Kennedy; and on the Republican side, where Donald Trump is ‘a kind of cartoon version of Richard Nixon.’”

Nixon won in ’68 in part by promoting himself as the “law & order” candidate, just as Trump is doing on the issue of illegal immigration. But the hangover from Johnson’s Great Society era and the left’s concomitant love of “Radical Chic” terrorism and economic and environmental Malthusianism lasted throughout the rest of the following decade, culminating in Carter’s infamous “Malaise” era.

Assuming a candidate with an (R) after his or her name wins next year, the hangover from the Obama era will be tremendous – as with the ‘70s, so will the punitive anger of the American left; don’t expect it to be “Morning in America” again for quite some time.

RELATED: “It’s GOP’s Race to Lose,” Ron Radosh writes. “Anything can happen, but Democratic prospects are weak no matter the candidate.”

C’mon – if anybody can blow it in 2016, it’s the Stupid Party.