The last five elections have been about oil, and very little else.  The issue is whether the oil companies can maintain the gridlock that has prevented anything being done about climate change.  Up to now, the combination of oil money and a cynical exploitation of the opposition of evangelical Christians to abortion, of gun nuts, and of increasingly strident racism, has allowed the oil companies to achieve their objective.

But their ability to play that game is facing a demographic tsunami.

They refused to reform themselves after the Romney defeat.

Instead, they doubled down on a strategy that requires them to whip an ever shrinking and narrowing demographic base into a frenzy.

And then the oil companies were beaten at their own game by an even bigger flim-flam artist.

A guy who has done everything he can to be as offensive as possible to Spanish-speakers, women, and African-Americans.

The Republican candidate has himself hastened the demographic day of reckoning ...