Will the GOP Survive Trump?

Most of my readers are probably too young to remember the 1964 Presidential election, but I can tell you that when I woke up on the morning of November 4, 1964 and turned on the TV to get the final election results from the previous day, like many other Americans, I believed that the Republic(an) Party may not have just collapsed, but was on its way to joining the Federalist Party and the Whig Party as important national political organizations which had completely disappeared.

Other than the five most Southern of all Southern states (AL, GA, LA, MS, SC), the only other state which went GOP was Arizona, where Barry Goldwater received 50.5% of the popular vote.

Overall, LBJ got 61% of the national popular vote and 486 electoral votes versus 52 electoral votes for the GOP.

Now it’s true that in 1980, the Reagan-Bush ticket received 489 electoral votes, but their popular vote total was only 50.7% of all popular votes cast that year.

As for the Hill, in the 89th Congress that convened in 1965, the Democrats held a 295–140 seat majority in the House and a 68–32 advantage in the Senate.

Now bear in mind that in 1964, 75 of LBJ’s electoral vote total and his majorities on the Hill also came from other Confederate states who weren’t about to support the liberal slant of LBJ’s domestic agenda. But even…