A Clear Election Verdict but a Murky Future

“In the days since his defeat, he has sounded like a man in denial,” the New York Times reports.

“With his party still picking through the wreckage of a political earthquake, a seemingly oblivious President Trump signed a steel beam for his new White House ballroom and flew to Florida to give a speech on the space program. He seems flat these days, maybe a little dazed.”

“If Donald Trump is still processing the election that swept his party from power in Congress last week, so too is Donald Trump’s America. Both parties are still absorbing the stunning reality of sweeping Democratic victories in states like Texas, Kansas and South Carolina that were long GOP strongholds — and possibly even Mississippi.”

“But as clear as the midterm verdict was, the future is cloudier.”