From article: "The way ahead is a minefield. History is littered with the carcasses of political parties that decided to buttress unpopular governments in minority situations and paid a price for it at the polls the next time...It might be instructional, for example, to call Nick Clegg, the former leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats, which entered into a coalition in 2010 with David Cameron’s disliked Conservative Party"

Hmmm... I guess the writer has not done his homework: 

Those UK Conservatives were so "disliked"after being in coalition with the LDs for 5-years, that in the 2015 election where the LDs lost most of the seats they had won in the 2010 election, the Conservatives were elected in enough constituencies to form a majority govt- not needing a coalition partner-, and along with home nations' Conservative party cousins- swept virtually ALL available seats in England,  Wales and N. Ireland...