When the Republican Party has lost 30 state legislative special elections in a row since President Donald Trump’s re-election, when all the governor elections in 2025 were also lost, and a historic number of Republicans in Congress have opted not to seek re-election, it has to make you think that the Republican Party must be “tanking.” Tanking? In basketball tanking – which has been much discussed lately – is when an NBA team “tries to lose” so it is in a better position to land a superstar collegiate player in the draft. When teams know they cannot win, they tank....