So the party that controls both houses of Congress, the majority of governorships, and the majority of state legislatures should just dissolve because we haven't won a Presidential election in a while?
Yes because a loss on a national level affects those elections. We will undeniably lose the Senate majority and seats in the House if we nominate Trump.
I am not convinced of that. The Democrats retained a 242 seat majority in the house and gained seats in the Senate during the McGovern debacle, and did not lose significant ground in 1984 when Reagan also swept 49 states.
The 1984 election was an overwhelming affirmation of a popular President, who won the votes of many non-liberal Democrats who voted Democratic in Congressional races. The 1972 election was won with a campaign where the Republican President urged Democrats to support him because it would be in keeping with being a good Democrat (McGovern representing someone who hijacked the party from regular Democrats). Democrats for Nixon were NOT encouraged to vote Republican for other offices in most cases; conservative Democrats who supported Nixon's foreign policy objectives were not effectively opposed.
So will it be if Trump comes a cropper. When a Presidential candidate is SO unpopular as to lose 40 or so states, it's a PERSONAL rejection of a particular candidate, and not a rejection of that party's policies. Oddly enough, the bigger Trump loses, the safer the GOP majorities are past a certain point.
