The tacit admission of the permanent minority

The increased radicalism on the blight wing has been discussed as heels digging in against a lost 2012 election combined with gerrymandering that created dead red districts in which the only threat to a red candidate comes from even deeper red upstarts.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/30/1242613/-The-tacit-admission-of-the-permanent-minority