“CF I think you posited once that we’ll win in the long term.”
If we haven’t imploded by then, than I think we will eventually. But we’ll mostly lose in the short term.
When I was growing up, many people my age remembered the failed Jimmy Carter Presidency, and responded by supporting Reagan in large numbers. Young people now remember George W. Bush, the Republican Jimmy Carter, and responded accordingly.
With JFK inspiring young Catholics adn Goldwater’s flop of a campaign, the GOP was declared dead. 8 years later in 1972, with the South turning for Nixon, pundits declared an emerging conservative majority. The point is that political fortunates are not fixed. Democracies need an opposition party to the incumbent party to be healthy. That said its going to take a while for the taste of Bush to wash away. If the economy continues to stagnate for the next 6 years, I expect the public to finally wake up.