The Democrats veered to the left, even as they nominated an unlikable candidate from the party’s establishment. Though in many ways the 2016 presidential contest was an uprising against the establishment, let’s face it; Republicans weren’t punished. And that’s not a new development. Twenty-sixteen is the fourth consecutive election in which the GOP has won the Senate and House. Nearly every conventional conservative Senate candidate — the ones Donald Trump’s fans supposedly hate — ran ahead of the GOP presidential nominee. This includes Republicans who were reticent supporters or outright critics of Trump. A melodramatic Van Jones is free to claim that Trump’s victory is a “white-lash.” But ever since Barack Obama’s unprecedented passage of Obamacare, his party has lost more than 1,000 seats nationally in three wave elections. Since 2010, the electorate has demanded that Washington share power, but the president didn’t listen, relying on executive power, bureaucracy, and the judiciary to pass agenda items without consensus or compromise.