Dana Milbank: America steps back from the abyss

Video: Post columnist Max Boot, who called for a blue tsunami after leaving the Republican Party, breaks down the results of the midterm election. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)
Washington -- On Tuesday night, America stepped back from the abyss.It was not, perhaps, the overwhelming repudiation of President Trump's vulgar, divisive, race-baiting and sometimes lawless tenure that Democrats had hoped for. But it was, at least, a correction, and a rebuke of the Trump presidency.Democrats re