In 2010, voters rejected the Democratic Party's borrowing from China to finance growing budget deficits. In 2006 and 2008, they rejected the Republican establishment's unilateral free trade, which shipped good-paying jobs abroad. They will continue to hold incumbents responsible for the disastrous economy that results from tolerating trade deficits.
But a Republican Party that advocates balanced budgets and trade, replaces oil with natural gas, and abolishes the corporate income tax would fix the economy and be unbeatable at the ballot box.