The republicans just lost an election that they couldn’t lose against Jimmy Carter the second, by running a guy who doesn’t even belong in republican politics at all.
Your smug comfort level with the disastrous path of the GOP is the path to total irrelevancy for the party.
The fact is, we did lose one to Jimmie Carter, and we got over that too. Cradle yourself in the prevailing blind anger at your own party and watch the left that you so despise continue to take away what is left of the country.