It seems the Mayans

were partially right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys.
 Who would ever have thought blacks would get out and support the first black president, women would shy away from the party of transvaginal probes, gays would work against a party that treated them as immoral and subhuman, young people would desert a party that ignored science and lectured on social issues, Latinos would scorn a party that expected them to finish up their chores and self-deport?  Republicans know they’re in trouble when W. emerges as the moral voice of the party.      

           But history will no doubt record that withering Republicans were finally wiped from the earth in 2016 when the relentless (and rested) Conquistadora Hillary marched in, General Bill on a horse behind her, and finished them off. Good riddance.