Arizona Republican Party is blowing the 2022 election with this farcical election 'audit'

In more than four decades of participating in and closely observing politics, there have been many predictions of the fatal demise of one of the two major political parties.

When Republicans have held the upper hand, it was the Democratic Party that supposedly would be locked out of power indefinitely. At other times, policy and demographics supposedly were in the process of rendering the Republican Party irrelevant.