Seriously. Ever hear of a party called the Democrats? They went 24 straight years without victory, had only 2 presidents between 1861 & 1933, suffered through two other periods of being in tge opposition, lasting 16 & 12 years respectively. Ya know what? They went on to hold the Presidency for 5 straight terms & dominated 1 house of congress 1955-1981, & the other 1955-1995. "Oh my gosh, we have a bad field! We're gonna die out automatically!"
Yea, but, uh, those parties were no where near incompetent as the current GOP.
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Ever hear of the New Deal era? We were nominating fat worse candidates then. Wendell friggin' Wilkie? A guy with no political experience & a former lifelong Democrat? Alf Landon's biggest accomplishment was surviving re-election in 1934. Tom Dewey wasn't ready til 1948 when he'd actually had enough time governing. Hell, the Democrats didn't even run a candidate in 1872. They endorsed someone else! And they still survived. They nominated a known loser not twice, but three times & yet they still survived. Just because things are bad or even horrible doesn't mean a party is doomed.