Rep. Nancy Pelosi won re-election as House Minority Leader last week, warding off an effort to change the party’s direction. This is an odd choice for a party that has just suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of voters and has no foothold on much of the country.

Pelosi comes from San Francisco, where wealthy liberals use big-government rules to exclude new entrants. So maybe it’s fitting that she appears set on turning the House Democratic Caucus into a bubble of the like-minded.