Call me Pollyannaish or insincere, but I am not depressed about the so-called “caving” of the GOP — for a host of reasons.

To put this in perspective, let me confess that I did feel totally dejected after Obama’s re-election in 2012. How could he possibly have won, I wondered, given the obvious failure of his policies and the wholesale repudiation of his agenda in the 2010 congressional elections?