Will Republicans learn from this defeat?
A healthy Republican Party would respond to this historic midterm-election repudiation of President Donald Trump with contrition and honest introspection. Its leaders would plot a fresh path forward and shed the elements of a White House agenda that drove American voters to hand control of the House of Representatives and US Senate to a Democratic Party they don’t even approve of all that much.Reduced to a rump in Congress and its governing coalition gutted to the bone — just in time for 2028 —…

