The election of 2016 prompted journalists and political scientists to write obituaries for the Republican Partyor prophecies of a new dominance. But it was all rather familiar. Whenever one of our two great parties has a setback weve heard This is the end of the Democratic Party or The Republican Party is going out of existence. Yet both survive and thrive. We have the oldest and third oldest political parties in the worldthe Democratic Party founded in 1832 to reelect Andrew Jackson the Repub