I remain an optimist, I think things really have gone so far, have gotten so bad, that if the Republicans get in, they'll have to do something. I'm optimistic, but it's sort of like being optimistic in 1939 and saying, "James, I think we can beat the Germans."
That is what you say when, like Winston Churchill in 1939, you have no other choice. I'm not sure the Republicans have figured out the situation is as grim as Tyrrell believes it to be.
