If Democrats win big, will they learn the right lessons from their victory? | Jan-Werner Mueller

No election outcome ever interprets itself. So how will Democrats interpret these results once they are known?

Whichever metaphor one prefers - landslide, earthquake, wave - it seems increasingly like the Democrats can expect a significant victory in the midterms.

As the joke goes, every gas station display of prices has become an ad for Democrats; what's more, some of them have managed to connect the relatively abstract issue of corruption to the daily misery of many Americans.