Today Is Easy. Tomorrow Is Hard

If Democrats do well, liberals will believe they won. That's wrong.

Liberals are feeling today a mix of dread and hope as they cast their ballots. For many of us, these midterm elections are about more than representation in the Congress, about more than an awful president. It’s about the character of our country.

Do we want to be a land of the free or of justice denied? Do we want to be a beacon of hope or shroud of dar…