...figuring that the Republicans also win the Presidency....
expect to be shut out of political power except in large cities and ultra-safe States until the next 1929-style economic meltdown.
It would be bad, but could have a silver lining. If Republicans fully run the show for a few years I bet 2020 will be a good year for Democrats and then we control the redistricting.
The Senate alone:
Class 2 consists of:
the 33 current senators whose seats are scheduled for re-election in November 2020, and whose terms end January 3, 2021; and
earlier senators with terms that ended in 1793, 1799, 1805, 1811, 1817, 1823, 1829, 1835, 1841, 1847, 1853, 1859, 1865, 1871, 1877, 1883, 1889, 1895, 1901, 1907, 1913, 1919, 1925, 1931, 1937, 1943, 1949, 1955, 1961, 1967, 1973, 1979, 1985, 1991, 1997, 2003, 2009, and 2015.
States with a Class 2 senator:
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado,
Delaware,
Georgia, Idaho,
Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico,
North Carolina, Oklahoma,
Oregon, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia,
West Virginia, and
Wyoming.
-- from Wikipedia, colors applied to states in accordance with Atlas colors.
22 Republicans, 11 Democrats. There will be plenty of opportunities for Democratic pickups in a normal Presidential year. Of course a full-blown Depression implies huge discontent even in areas that seem very safe for Republicans in near-normal years. Depression stirs up populist, anti-Establishment sentiments.
Figure that Republicans have had tight control of the House for ten years and many become un-electable.
...I see Republican policies offered today as at best as bad as those that brought about the sesqui-year bear that began in late 2007, and I can see them likely to take measures that would only exacerbate the situation.
Silver linings: Americans go from having economic practices like those in Iran to something more like those of Finland, and we become a much nicer people, one more likely to see a stranger in need as an object of sympathy instead of someone to stab in the back.
