The big takeaway from this article is.. And I haven't heard or seen anyone say this yet.. That Pat is WRONG. The GOP and Republican brands will be fine.. They can weather anything. They'll just change into a mirror image of the democrats. They can do it overnight.. No problem! Now the Conservative ideology is something else entirely.. It can't abide this and it will die. Then we'll all be socialists in some form.. Or at least we'll be represented by them.