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+ The New York Times offers "Lessons from a Comeback" by Paul Krugman. This is about California where the GOP has been marginalized and deadlock is over.  Good things are happening.  Excerpt: "... California’s political story — in which a radicalized G.O.P. fell increasingly out of touch with an increasingly diverse and socially liberal electorate, and eventually found itself marginalized — is arguably playing out with a lag on the national scene too." | Read the article