When in a hole, keep right on digging. That’s the attitude of a number of movement conservatives, who, in reaction to last year’s shellacking, seem to want to make certain they never climb out.

The plan, should there be one, seems to come in three parts: First, whine, lament and rend garments in public; second, blame everyone else for your failure to win much since Reagan left office, and third, having come out of a cycle in which you lost increasing numbers of various people, do try your hardest to lose even more.