Any more in today's secular, liberal, left leaning, political society what with almost 95% media assistance and cover the left's greatest tool in attempting to counter Conservatives and Republicans is a dictionary. Not that anything has changed over the years for they are still using the same playbook daily.
It seems that most on the Right, the conservatives and Republicans don't fear the electorate anymore but rather fear, with great anxiety, certain words or being labeled by the Democrats, or worse, the media, as "Racist" or "Bigoted" or more recently "sexist". Republicans, out of shear fear of being labeled racist, announced in advance that they would be removing any possibility of impeachment from the table when dealing with President Obama. I don't know about most on here but to me that's almost a treasonous statement in that it was an invitation for Obama to push any agenda of his regardless of whether it was or would be constitutional or not. Republicans further became useless and flaccid in their legislating allowing most any of Obama's desires to pass through or go unopposed so as not to appear as racist or give reason for anyone to label them as such so basically, as an opposing party , they became useless which in great part led to an atmosphere where Donald Trump began to shine and stood out as a viable alternative and sure opposition to what was now the Washington political standard.
Be not deceived or fooled if Hillary Clinton is elected then it's at minimum, four years more of political inactivity on Congress's part due to the fear changing from racism to sexism. The real frustrating thing, at least to this, proclaimed, independent minded Conservative leaning voter is that if the Republican Congress and Senate was to have shown 1/10th the backbone and fortitude toward Obama and the Democrats as they have shown against their parties own Presidential candidate, chosen by a majority of the Republican electorate then potentially they would not be in the predicament that they find themselves in.
While I disagree with most of the current Democratic platform at least you have to admit that Democrats, as corrupt as many are, do know how to get things done and legislate whereas the Republicans attempt solely to be diplomatic and fail at both, legislating and diplomacy. When the Democrats wanted to accomplish their agenda they didn't let Republican opposition and the filibuster impede them, they just used the "nuclear option" and did away with the filibuster. When Republicans were returned to control of the Senate they removed the nuclear option inclined never to use it or enact it under their rule because they didn't want to appear as obstructionist to Obama. They were more afraid of what words the media would tag them with than they were identifying the problems and seeking to correct them. Maybe they were afraid that if they made any profound changes that were seen as beneficial that Obama would get the credit.
Newt didn't worry about such with his "Contract with America" back in Clinton's day and the "Contract with America" was responsible for the Republicans being trusted and allowed them to regain the senate and house and then they did what they promised and implemented the Contract with America and yes Bill Clinton did get some credit for some of the positive results. For whatever reason I detest the current batch of Republicans as ineffective leadership and a total failure to make good on the great potential they had when the public trusted the yet again and restored them to power in the Senate and House again.