Washington -- After the Republican Party’s losses in 2012, GOP elders undertook an “autopsy” to discover the cause.
After a midterm drubbing that cost Republicans about 40 House seats -- the best Democratic performance since the Watergate era -- there has been, as the New York Times' Jonathan Martin put it, "little self-examination among Republicans" nor any effort by leaders "to confront why the party's once-loyal base of suburban supporters abandoned it."
There is good reason for this: As long as President Trump is in office, those voters probably aren't coming back to the party, whose base of older white men may well have hit its high-water mark in 2016.