Last night was obviously not good for the Republican Party — which isn’t in a good place, and which won’t even begin to be until it ejects Donald Trump — but the hand-wringing that has been prompted by the results out of Virginia might be a little over the top, don’t you think? After a redistricting cycle, the House went from 52R–48D to 49R–51D, and the GOP picked up a seat in the Senate. That’s obviously not what Republicans wanted. Overall, it was a loss, not a victory. But it’s also not especially informative. …

Do not misunderstand me: Republicans ought not to ignore their problems. The Democrats continue to make an enormous amount of hay out of Donald Trump and January 6, and, until Republicans have the courage to jettison the man, they will continue to bleed out in the suburbs and among the middle-class voters who reliably showed up to vote for them every year between 1968 and 2016, and who now refuse to do so, however ugly the alternative.

[I had more on this earlier. — Ed]