Beware the implicit message ...

I find this headline ominous. You might expect that a poltical party which repeatedly lost elections would be struggling to assemble a majority coalition. But that's not how a Washington Post headline writer sees things.

Republicans -- too many of them anyway -- don't seem to be focused on assembling a coalition made up of enough voters to win elections with the most votes. You know, the usual 50 percent of the electorate, plus 1. Voter suppression measures, baseless recounts, and lying seem to be their toolbox to resume what they consider their proper status as the governing party.

And too much of the media neglect to critique the implicit lie.