It has become a feature -- well, a bug -- of American politics: the party in power convinces themselves they are the eternal darlings of the voting public and, staring at their reflection like wistful Narcissus, manage to lose their majority.
But the oscillation just keeps getting bigger, and of late the worst excursions have been based not on political philosophy but personal magnetism. It's not really self-correcting, or at least it hasn't been so far.
Every so often, we have bent our system so far that it rebounds -- or breaks. I'm not sure which we're headed for this time, but make no mistake, we're not on the straight and level.
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