It’s been a month since the midterms, and the grand scale of the calamity that has befallen the Republican Party grows clearer by the day. And yet Republicans in Washington seem intent on denying it.

In his wild meeting Tuesday with Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer, President Trump emphasized the fact that the GOP expanded its majority in the Senate by two seats.

Earlier in the day, Rep. Tom Emmer, the incoming head of the National Republican Campaign Committee, which recruits candidates and raises money for GOP house races, told National Journal that “there’s a narrative that people are trying to build out there that somehow there’s been this shift, this political realignment in the suburbs. That’s not true. It isn’t there.”