The Republicans used to win both the popular vote and the House of Representatives, each of which they now consider a write-off, while the Democrats used to win both the Electoral College and the Senate, which it is now within the party's mainstream to want to abolish.
Likewise, both parties used to understand that the point of acquiring political power was to exercise it, such as by nominating and confirming to the Supreme Court. But then, neither party used to look to the courts as the primary means of attaining its objectives. Both of them used to be more concerned with winning elections.
And time was when neither party regarded impeachment as run-of-the-mill. The treatment of such a device in those terms is the stuff of student unions, not of grown-up politics, republican and democratic.
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