Today's voters are much more fickle than they were a generation ago. They also demand results now instant gratification of the political sort. Their attention spans are short, but intense. Once they decide that their elected leaders need a course correction, they'll vote to eject them from office. The huge mistake that political leaders make these days is assuming that any victory is a mandate to turn government into what they want it to be, rather than what the people actually want it to be.
Liberalism is a washed-up relic of the past.
Those are the ingredients for a recipe for GOP disaster four years from now. But Gilmore knows he has only two years to effect the changes that have been his life's obsession. He's going to want to hurry. He's going to bury even more state officials who dare to take issue with his plans. He's going to fill his legislative plate to overflowing with programs steeped in conservatism, and expect his party regulars to march in lockstep.