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Deception is the key. The Democrats deceived the people knowingly. Only when it became apparent they would control the Senate did they raise the Jolly Roger - gloating that Ronald Reagan would no longer be able to send support to the Contras; crowing that he would no longer be able to appoint "fanatic” judges; boasting that they could now block even minor attempts to curtail the bureaucracy. Democrats campaigned and won on other, non-national issues, while they knew that these were at stake. But in the end, they are not to blame for their success.
Consider the Republicans. Why did they not make these "great national issues” the crux of the elections? It’s the hardest thing to figure this political year, and what it comes dpwn to is (1) self-deception, and (2) thin blood.
Repeatedly in years past, Ronald Reagan has appealed for non-partisan Congressional support of his national agenda. When this has not come, he has compromised or surrendered while feigning victory.
Driven by a dream of uniting America, he has shied away from engaging Congress wrathfully. Downplaying the deepest partisan rifts since the mid-19th century, he has appeared more the grandfatherly British monarch than the realigning statesman who can heal a divided nation.
Mr. Reagan has failed to emulate F.D.R., who realigned America by giving no station to his partisan opponents (and by campaigning very negatively to fill Congress with his
partisan allies). Now he will reap the harvest of that failure: even his cherished plan to pursue the Strategic Defense Initiative is doomed to derailment by the loss of a Republican Senate majority.
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