Tuesday was a rough night for Donald Trump .

Despite the “mandate” he claimed upon his own election a year ago, voters turned out in large numbers to reject his preferred candidates, delivering Democrats their first taste of hope since Trump steamrolled back into Washington. The message seemed clear: “Americans are appalled by what they are seeing coming out of this administration,” as New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put it on CNN Tuesday evening. Even Trump, typically allergic to acknowledgments of defeat, couldn’t ignore the results: “I don’t think it was good for Republicans,” he told GOP senators afterward. “But we had an interesting evening, and we learned a lot.”

What should Democrats learn from it all, as they seek a way out of the political wilderness

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