The right lessons and the wrong ones from 2018

Published November 12, 2018 1:17pm ET



BRUNSWICK, Ga. – People always learn the wrong lessons from elections.

Most people take the lesson that the election results just prove what they already believed. The smarter people in politics learn something new from the races they win—and they learn even more from the races they lose.

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