Prediction: This election will be a wakeup moment similar

in 1925. That trial, pitting fundamentalist/conservative beliefs against science and secularism, was a sensational culmination of previously ascendent radical right wing beliefs that exposed them to the world at large. 

There are so many similarities between these times and then, especially galloping change sparking reactionary religious fervor and stoking bigotry and severe anti-immigrant passion. In both eras, with the radical positions, meanness, bigotry, and antiintellectualism hiding behind fundamentalist religion displayed for what they are, the public at large has rejected it. The GOP would have lost the House outright if most districts weren't gerrymandered to protect representatives and candidates from the will of the people.

Most significant is the backfiring of the bold, right-out-in-the-open attempts to suppress the vote, including that of many conservatives, knowing that voters on the left of all colors and backgrounds would be more affected.  The people behind those attempts have such profound contempt for voters as a whole that they completely failed to recognize the outrage this would lead to, and its galvanizing effect.

Voters of ALL backgrounds came out to vote as a result. Young, old, all colors. Few were left indifferent.

For this loss, the right can blame

**what it's been calling its "base" of passionate anti-everybody-elses,

**its religious extremists' attacks on science and reproductive rights, especially "personhood" threats, and its attempts to insinuate religion into government,

**and its leadership's contempt for and cynical attempts to disenfranchise what it obviously did misread as a nation of weaklings just wanting to be taken care of.

Four years isn't going to be nearly long enough to erase the stigma of this election from peoples' memories. The GOP will have to rediscover true conservative principles worth voting for and join the rest of the country in repudiating hate, or die away.