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…