Crazy Kills

Jonathan Bernstein:

What I would say about it, however, is that the dysfunction in the current GOP makes successful governing if they do win extremely difficult. I think we've seen that for some time, and I think it was part of why George W. Bush was such a poor president; there really are major governing penalties for finding it hard to accept reality.

Put it this way: it seems that Republicans outside of the recent campaign certainly deluded themselves about the polling, and Republicans inside the campaign may well have been guilty of it too. I've argued that it didn't really hurt them, however; mostly it just meant that the eventual results took them by surprise. However, if you try to govern that way -- say, if you actually believe phony revenue estimates, or actually believe that people in some country are eager for you to invade them when in fact they are not -- then massive policy disasters are likely.

That is the main reason why sane people shouldn't vote for Republicans.  They have no business whatsoever governing.  They don't care about governance, and if they get put in charge, they will do a lot of stupid and crazy things.  Until some sane Republicans show up, they should never be allowed near the levers of power.