By noon on Election Day, the Washington Examiner had two editorials ready to publish once the voters’ choice for president was revealed some hours later. Both assumed that former President Donald Trump would win, which is what we expected. 

The first examined Trump’s comeback, the most astonishing in America’s political history, from indictments, impeachments, and siege by Washington’s bien pensants and deep-state malefactors. The second editorial besought the Democratic Party to learn from its defeat and repudiate the policies and methods of its ugly and violent extremes to become a plausible party of government again.