id 40s. because of his success among republicans, as i ve written, i think this is becoming a more conventional midterm. it appears that the hopes of democrats early on, t ks of the republican coalitld shear off away from donald trump almost like, you know, an iceberg going into the ocean. that s not going to happen it doesn t look like. if they are going take back the house, they have to solve their usual midterm problem, turning out more latino voters, more african-american voters, more young voters whose participation tends to fall off in the midterm. some mixed signals from california on that, by the way. look, what is what is is the democratic party for? what are the democrats for in 2018, not just what are they resisting against. i think that some of the excitement among some of the democratic women who did well last night is that despite what seems to be a party that doesn t have a mission at the moment except for anti-trump, there s some excitement among the individual wome