It wasn't a tsunami. It wasn't a glorious revolution. It wasn't a referendum against Donald Trump. It wasn't a red tide. It wasn't a hold on the one-yard line. It wasn't a referendum for Donald Trump. America remains unsettled, undecided, unsure of herself, uncertain what path to take. The net result of the 2018 midterm election is that we will put off decision making for another two years and watch very little actually get done. Again. Now that one branch of Congress can block both the other branch and the Executive as well, and the other branch and the President can block the House as well, the divisions between us loom even larger than before. But we also have restored a check on the system and with it restored the balance our Founding Fathers intended. Democracy stumbles forward, wounded but alive, recovering and trying to find a peaceful middle ground.
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