You are not dealing with your father’s Republicans. You are not dealing with rational actors. They are in service to an utterly amoral man, and by both inclination and necessity they will mirror his behaviors. DON’T BELIEVE NATIONAL POLLS It’s not simply that they’re often wrong. It’s that they make you focus on doing the wrong thing. The national polling pretty closely reflected the results of the 2016 race: Hillary Clinton was predicted to win the popular vote, and did. That wasn’t the ballgame, though, was
