I think there will be a tussle for the "heart and soul" of the Republican party. There are the radical conservatives, there are the rational conservatives, and there are the Trump-tea(dumb-tees). I seriously doubt that the Dems win the House this election (I think, despite the spiral of the Trump campaign, there will be a resurgence of some kind in the last of the campaign, at least for Republicans, generally). There is some hope that, in order to save the party, the rational conservatives will break ranks with the "majority" of the party and forge some deals with the Democrats on some policy positions (perhaps immigration).

If they try to use obstructionism to block all legislation, there may well be an open war against conservatism by the population and we may see a reversal of historical trends - the incumbent party gaining seats in the off-year, and maybe even retaking the chamber. There are still great swathes of conservatism in the United States, but the suburbanization is creating more and more Democratic-leaning Districts that threaten to overwhelm the gerrymandering.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich