Next year's elections "will change American politics for a generation"

In an op-ed column in The Hill, Brent Budowsky, a former staffer for the late Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, writes:

The stage is set; the die is cast; there is panic in the air from Republicans, and landslide in the air for Democrats. The bell now tolls for the Republican Party, and if they campaign as the do-nothing party of obstructionism to preserve a repellant status quo, the tidal wave is coming and a realigning election will change American politics for a generation.

Read the whole thing here.