Lashing out.

Krugman is very good today -- and warns us to brace for the Mother of All Temper Tantrums.

So Republicans have suffered more than an election defeat, they’ve seen the collapse of a decades-long project. And with their grandiose goals now out of reach, they literally have no idea what they want — hence their inability to make specific demands. 

It’s a dangerous situation. The G.O.P. is lost and rudderless, bitter and angry, but it still controls the House and, therefore, retains the ability to do a lot of harm, as it lashes out in the death throes of the conservative dream. 

Our best hope is that business interests will use their influence to limit the damage. But the odds are that the next few years will be very, very ugly.