It’s fully possible that President Donald Trump’s high-stakes gambles, from his Ukraine peace deal to his trade with Mexico and Canada, will ultimately imperil the GOP’s newfound popularity. But even if the Donald does fail to deliver, the Democrats have made it clear that they’ve utterly lost the plot. Republicans will rightly warn that those who have bet against Trump before have been left badly burned — see: Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Fani Willis, etc. But the party’s best bet for continued dominance over Washington is that Democrats are utterly lost in the wilderness and the #Resistance is nothing but a zombie they’d be wise to bury once and for all.

Lesson one of the greatest political comebacks in American history ought to have been, as evidenced by the aforementioned prosecutors now with their own legal fates up in the air, is that when you come at the king, you best not miss.