For the past two years, Democrats have clung onto emotional messaging, promising that the repeal of net neutrality would kill us all and how President Trump would start war with North Korea or act as a Russian agent.

Ultimately, their overblown, fantastical wishcasting, propelled by a cooperative national news media, proved a step too far. Even though Democrats won a House majority last night, the blue wave proved more of a trickle that still ceded to the Republicans’ domination in the Senate, probably for at least four years.