@MLClark Standard reason for anything that went wrong or got broken was "The Republicans did it". It stems back to a great uncle who went to vote in the 1930's and came back disheveled with a split lip and a black eye. My Grandmother was in near hysterics and all he said was "The Republicans did it" . This became a standard excuse for the next two generations. Odd that in this time maybe more than all those other decades its more true and much less funny.