What Will Republicans Learn from the Midterms?

The midterms prove that sanity is still alive in America, barely. But Republicans will now work overtime to kill it.

It is axiomatic that, in war, the losers learn more than the winners. Given how much reckless talk of actual civil war is in the air, I am hesitant to resort to martial metaphors, especially in this case, where the Republicans — who were very clearly the losers Tuesday night — are unlikely to learn much. Leave it to them to defy the cliché in the worst possible way.

As of this writing, we don’t yet know which party will control Congress. What we do know is that whatever the outcome, the ensuing majorities in both houses will be razor thin. That is because of the other thing we know, which is that Joe Biden and the Democrats held on to seats up and down the ballot in historic proportions in defiance of the usual midterm pattern. That victory was especially sweet amid all the pre-Election Day Republican arrogance about a “red wave,” and eleventh hour gaslighting by the party and its allies, from Fox to Musk to the Kremlin, abetted by the reliably useful idiots in the MSM, that it was already a done deal.

Luckily, John and Jane Q. Voter didn’t listen.

It is obviously very cheering that we saw stark evidence that sanity is still alive in the USA, if only barely. A slim majority…