The Great Republican Freak-Out.

In 2014, Republicans swept the midterms in one of the greatest GOP victories of the previous hundred years. Since 2014, the Republicans have had one good election cycle - the election of 2016 - and, in that year, their presidential candidate got 46 percent of the vote against the most hated woman in American political history. Had they wished to, Republican primary voters could have learned a valuable lesson from this: Namely, that when the different parts of the party constructively shape each other, Republicans can win big. [Extracted from the article]