Noonan: Be Cheerful

The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan, writing about the gloom surrounding the Republican Party and its adherents:

Republicans in DC are feeling bleak.  Should they?  Nah.  Demographic and culture changes lean against them but despair is for sissies, and in any case the pendulum swings, even if its arc is sometimes wider or higher than expected.  What’s going on in the states, with the economic rise of the Reds, and the relative sinking of the Blues, is instructive, and Americans will take note.  Long term pessimists should maintain a daily optimism, a happiness and vigor in the day to day.  This is a time for creativity and guts.  Which means: it’s an exciting time to be alive. 

 Noonan is correct. Only two years ago we were celebrating a real win, in the 2010 midterm election.