there are a lot of lesson so be had...
just a few...
- long term planning of the gop vs short term tactics of dems
- justices staying on too long until it was too late
- bad (tone-deaf) campaigning for prez lost 3 seats on the sc
- ignoring rural and working-class (used to be the dems bread and butter) dissolved their base of support (clinton and the "new" dems)
- relying on the sc for too many rulings... next we loose gay marriage and probably interracial marriage in many states.....