Post-election hoo-ha, the common practice of interpreting results of one election to project impact on the next election, always struck me as pretentious pap — gabbing around the watercooler (when offices had watercoolers, and people went to offices).

Still, always happens. Democrats in Pennsylvania and across the country no doubt read 2025 results as an elixir for their body politic, something to get them up and moving, a sign that happy days are near again headed to 2026.

Not without reason. They landed the prize in Pennsylvania, keeping control of the state Supreme Court , the highest court in the country’s most important swing state. Voters, by wide margins, said “yes” not “no” to new terms for each of three incumbent Democratic justices.

(Aside: In a column two weeks ago, my `D

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