Making the Most of America’s Midterm Tsunami

American voters’ demand for the rule of law and democracy has helped destroy Trump’s MAGA movement. Affordability may have ranked first among their concerns, but addressing it will depend on repairing and improving democratic institutions. CHICAGO—Imagine, for a moment, that the US midterm elections had not delivered Democratic wins at a generational scale, but merely a trickle of flipped seats—enough, perhaps, to change control of the House of Representatives but not enough for a Senate majority. Is there any doubt that President Donald Trump would embrace such results as a good-enough validation of his often lawless and brutal administration? Would it not now be doubling down, striving to cast the polls as an imprimatur for its excesses?