The midterms aren’t going to halt their agenda, they’re going to release it.
The GOP agenda is currently on half-throttle because the party is divided. The laity are dominated by the Trump faction, the legislature is dominated by the Pence faction.
The contest in the 2018 midterms is not between D and R; there aren’t going to be a significant number of seats changing hands, courtesy of gerrymandering and disenfranchisement. The real contest will be found in the GOP primaries, when the Trump faction moves to expel non-loyalists from the party.
Y’all ain’t getting rid of the GOP in 2020 either. They control the electoral roll, they count the votes. They have clearly demonstrated that they are willing and able to use this power, and it would be suicidal for them to unilaterally abandon it. There is no reason to expect them to do that.
Single-party GOP rule at the Federal level isn’t going to go away via conventional electoral means. A revolution is required; at the very least, a general strike of sufficient scale and duration to grind the country to a complete stop.
The GOP can be overthrown, but not while playing by the rulebook that they control. Business-as-usual is completely inadequate for the situation.
