“(Obama).....may be a disaster, but not the worst of all possible disasters.”
Well, that is my point, thankfully, but I detect a note of inevitability in your characterization of the election of Democrats of various stripes. I would observe the opposite: Carter won because Ford, otherwise experienced and well liked, ran a nonideological campaign. Clinton beat a split ticket (he won with 43% where Dukakis had lost with 44%) and later defeated another well liked Republican who was also ideologically incompetent. And Obama defeated an anti-his-own-party maverick.
Anyway, Obama’s dictatorial megalomania is far greater than the talents needed to achieve his overarching goals. Note his visible frustration when he reminds his base that the Constitution inhibits his desire to rule by executive fiat.
Less than sixteen months remain of this appalling presidency. That’s cause enough for hope.
My memory is that Bush Sr. wasn't all that well liked in 1992, and resentment against him had more to do with the economy than with ideology. If Perot weren't in the race he might have won, but I doubt a more conservative Republican running in that year, with everything else held constant, would have done well enough to win.
It would be nice to think that all Republican victories were foreordained and inevitable and all Democrat victories were accidents, but accidents do happen, and since the country's been more or less equally divided between Republicans in recent elections, you can count on such accidents happening sooner or later.