How did we get here? And how do we find our way back?

Half the nation is still reeling from the results of last week’s elections. While there was an overall impression that it would not be a good night for Republicans, virtually no one expected it to be the slaughter that it was. In Congress alone, Republicans lost 40 seats in the House of Representatives (numbers at this writing are 254 Democrat to 164 Republican) and eight seats in the U.S. Senate (55 Democrat to 44 Republican), with Alaska still counting votes. Democrats flipped the governors’ offices in Nevada, Ohio, Iowa, Georgia and Texas, and they now hold a majority of governors’ offices – 29 – with two more states – Kansas and Alaska – still counting but likely to go to the Democrats. Democrats also flipped more than 500 individual state legislative seats across the country, including turning the control of 12 legislative chambers from red to blue.

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