I have no interest in seeing Democrats take control of Congress. No matter how frustrated I am with our president, I still believe that Republicans have better ideas when it comes to national security, trade, taxes, spending and a host of other issues that matter deeply to me.

And the thought of Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California being in charge of an entire branch of government is almost as frightening to me as the words "President Trump" are to Democrats.

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But if I were writing a campaign plan for a high-level adviser to the president to ensure that Republicans would lose the House and the Senate next year, it would look something like this:

Sabotage major issues on which Republicans campaigned for years. I would make sure that legislation on immigration reform, Obamacare repeal and tax reform had enough toxic components to guarantee that Republicans could never get unanimous support, ensuring failure. And I would stoke dissension within the ranks of the caucus to make sure that both House and Senate Republicans formed circular firing squads.

Get the president to publicly disparage Republican leadership. I would lay blame at the feet of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and continually fill the president's head with stories of McConnell's incompetence and Ryan's lack of loyalty. I would urge the president to tweet snide remarks about them, disparage them in speeches and undercut them in private meetings.

Foster a war between conservative news media and Ryan/McConnell. I would get in the ears of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham and the other hosts at "Fox and Friends," and plug stories about how Republican leadership in Congress is making the president look bad because it's failing to deliver on the president's agenda. And I would make the conservative media believe they would curry favor with the president if they ran stories supporting this narrative.

Attack incumbent Republicans, especially vulnerable ones. Instead of quietly ignoring when a vulnerable incumbent criticized the administration or voted against a bill supported by the administration because it is useful to their re-election (as President George W. Bush did with Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine on many occasions, and as President Barack Obama did with Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia a few times), I would take up arms against them. I would verbally attack them on national television, I would get the president to attack them in rally speeches and I would make clear that these members are enemies of the president.

Recruit primary opponents against sitting Republican senators. I would urge potential candidates to get in the race, give them free advice on messaging, help them raise money and provide entree to groups that might be supportive, suggesting these candidates had the blessing of the president.

Go on national TV, and stroke the president's ego. I would vigorously defend everything he does and brag about how I was the only one who stood by him and believed in him in his darkest hour. And in the same interview, I would attack McConnell and Ryan for being weak and incompetent, and make clear that I intended to defeat incumbent members of their caucuses, giving the impression that I had the blessing of the White House in doing so.

Encourage donors to support the incumbent's challengers. I would tell the president's donors to give money to the campaigns of those running in primaries against incumbents, and to super PACs supporting those candidates.

This is exactly what Steve Bannon has been doing for the last nine months. While working for a Republican president, he has been actively engaged in destroying the GOP. First as a senior adviser to Donald Trump and now back atop the throne of Breitbart News, he is on a jihad against Republicans. Some say he's a mad genius. But I'm beginning to think he's just mad, in both senses of the word. He is angry and, frankly, a bit crazy.

When you look at majority caucuses that have endured, it is because the White House has supported and strengthened their leaders. They have supported incumbents and done everything to further their re-election. They have created an expectation that others (lobbyists, donors, news media aligned with their side) support those incumbents. And they haven't encouraged primary opposition which creates costly campaigns draining time, energy and resources from the general election battle to come.

Ryan has raised an unprecedented amount of money on behalf of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and my guess is that, come January 2019, he will still be the speaker of the House. McConnell is a campaign machine, and if you challenge him to a fight (in the words of my Colorado husband), "you'd better bring your lunch and your lantern."