With only one exception, in post-9/11 wartime, the GOP hasn’t won the Presidency by a real majority since Bush the Elder did in 1988. His son, the Bush Baby, won a judicially disputed election by an electoral college technicality in 2000, and later was legitimately re-elected as a popular majority President in 2004 only because it was wartime. Except for that year, more Americans have voted for a Democratic than a Republican President for the last 24 years. 2016 promises more of the same, a Democratic streak of popular majorities with only one interruption spanning five decades, and a Democratic President in the next decade cannot be ruled out either.

The Right did a little better in local elections and legislative contests, but it must be pretty clear by now that in the elections where everybody votes, Democrats consistently get elected, even when the electoral college tries to interfere. Even when they run blacks, and now, women, the Dems win. For a demographic who used to think of itself as the Moral Majority, the white, male, Conservative, Christian, middle aged, Northern European REAL Americans are not only finding themselves gradually slipping into second class minority status, they can’t even trust their own children to vote for their tribe anymore.

After a century of attempting to conflate their racial, social, ethnic, and religious status into a specific political ideology, they now find that entire constellation of values and characteristics unraveling.

Couple this class decline with a simultaneous deterioration of their economic hegemony and their social prestige and it spells trouble. This cohort is rapidly losing its majority status, and they can even foresee a time when their plurality is threatened.

They are absolutely right when they say they are “losing their country”. They certainly are. It is not their country anymore. What they don’t seem to understand is that no one is “taking” it away from them. Its just history.

We are starting to see the shape of this new century start to form out of the mists of history. It will be as different from the previous one as the 20th was from the 19th. Think of what happened after the First World War, not just technologically, but economically and socially as well: nationally and throughout the world.

Hint: Britain won the First World War, but the Empire was never quite the same again.