Square Pegs

Washington conventional wisdom fits a time gone by

Two years ago, when I was in DC with my Villanova group, it was all red wave, all the time.

Speaker after speaker told of the coming Republican landslide. The question wasn’t whether Republicans would dominate the midterm elections. It was how much they would dominate.

Pollsters told us as much. So did elected Republicans. And elected Democrats.

My positi…