The GOP were pretty forthright about their intentions up to a few months before 2010 and 2014. Everyone should have known all this was coming. Everyone said, “we’ll vote for Republicans and hold their feet to the fire.” I couldn’t understand why anyone thought that was going to work. In 2016 we’ll get the same happy-talk. Not in 2018 though. By then the GOP will break their pledge not to ban election.
No doubt, as we get closer to elections we shall see the “lessor evil” nonsense.