Bravo to you, sir/ma'am. I'm seeing tons of Monday-Morning Quarterbacking and entrail-analyzing claiming that Republicans lost because they were "too extreme" or some such glop, and that their only way forward amounts to being more like Democrats.

What a crock of crap. Your piece is the only one I've seen on the topic so far that actually makes sense -- and that includes Reason Magazine's post-mortem.