Short answer: yes.
Long answer? Yes, but so long as there is no viable alternative for liberals/leftists to go to, not in the immediate future (with all due respect to Townhall's Mark Lewis). That said, even a cursory look at the political map shows how hard it'll be for them to get back the reins of power. For instance, while the House could still flip next November, if the Senate even reverts to the Presidential line, its' a one-seat loss for Dems (from 53 seats currently to 54 seats).
Go out four years and its' still just as bleak there for Democrats.
Karl Rove once spoke of the "permanent Republican majority" during George W. Bush's administration....I still think he was wrong then but I do believe that every so often each party has a generational majority that endures for a couple decades either way.
Until recently Dems' owned a lock on the House majority (1954-1994) and odds are there were people who were born, lived and died only knowing Democratic house majorities (led by, among others, Sam Rayburn, Carl Albert, Tip O'Neill and Tom Foley). Likewise, assuming no epic collapses by Republicans, Democrats may be staring at a generational minority in the Senate of similar length.
Why? Couple reasons but the two that come to mind quickest are: (1) lack of a viable Democratic bench in a bunch of GOP-led states and (b) their collapse in winning red states over the past couple decades.
Until Democrats square those two, they may never hold all three reigns of elective federal power in the immediate future. Of course, given who runs the Democratic Party these days....
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