IT’S A RED QUEEN’S RACE TO THE BOTTOM:

● Shot: “Has Gop Hit Rock Bottom? No, It Could Actually Get A Lot Worse,” Byron York writes in the Washington Examiner.

● Chaser: “Divided, They’ll Fall: The Democrats could be coming apart,” Fred Siegel argues in City Journal.

As Mike Judge’s Idiocracy increasingly seems like a documentary, and our elites on both sides of the aisle seem equally pathetic when compared with their past counterparts, perhaps both stories are true to some extent. Especially considering that “We have the worst political class in American history,” as Glenn has noted on numerous occasions in recent years.