There will be plenty of blame to go around, and plenty of time to pass it out. You socons need to own up to your share.
Which is, as I see it: You are not a majority. Not even close. The maximum national socon vote is no more than 30%, probably closer to 15-20%. This is reflected in statewide races, for which the US Senate seats are a useful marker. There are essentially no socons in the US Senate.
You ARE essential to any non-Democrat victory. No Republican can be elected without you.
However, this does not mean that you can get everything you want. You have some issues which are popular, or can be made popular. You have other issues which can be used to rally 70% of the people against you.
Sometime in the last six years, you have decided to emphasize the issues which most of the people oppose. I realize, from many discussions here and elsewhere, that you regard this as taking a moral stand which transcends politics. Some socons take the view that, as long as they are right, they should stand for and advocate for unpopular causes. Under some circumstances, I agree with this.
But it's going too far to set a litmus test for a Republican Presidential or Senatorial candidate that they endorse your least popular ideas. Yes, you can destroy any candidate who won't do this. But the fact that you have the power to do so does not make it wise to exercise that power.
As I said, we will have four long years to go over this debacle.
But no member of the 1994 coalition is without fault, and we all need to start by owning up to our own failings.