Commentary: The blue wave never came, but voters did rebuke a heedless, headstrong president
An ancient political adage holds that winning elections is about addition, not subtraction - that parties succeed by building the broadest coalitions they can. Donald Trump, who became president by defying the rules, tried to win Tuesday's congressional elections a different way: through division. It didn't work.
Trumpism finally met some limits, and the country is better for it. Not healed, not repaired - but better.
Democrats didn't quite get the "blue wave" they hoped for. They lost at least two seats in
