House Democrats, who have spent the last two years half-suggesting that President Trump is a 21st-century Manchurian candidate, have a chance to do some diplomacy now that they’ve won back the House: The party plans to anoint one of its most temperamentally bipartisan and substantively moderate members to head the Foreign Affairs Committee.

“We are not going into this to try and exacerbate our differences; we’re trying to find common ground,” New York Rep. Eliot Engel, the incoming Democratic chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Washington Examiner.