Redder. Bluer. Trumpier. America Is About to Be Even More Divided

By the time Nancy Pelosi took the stage at the Hyatt Regency in Washington on Election Day, it was nearly midnight and the panic had passed. After an evening of equivocal results and occasional heartbreak, the House Democratic leader was there to assure the cheering crowd that their party had won, and she was the proof: Democrats, she said, "have taken back the House for the American people!"

The message was met with relief more than triumph.