Ed Morrissey posted a story at Hot Air today about the Democrats‘ reaction to the Republican takeover of the White House and gains in Congress, state houses, and state legislators. The article cites a Washington Post article that explains that even though the Republicans made significant gains at all levels, it wasn’t a mandate, and the Republicans will have to compromise with the Democrats. Somehow when the Democrats win, they are never expected to compromise.

The Washington Post reports:

Americans emerged from President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory in last week’s election with passionate and polarized reactions, overall expressing tempered optimism about his presidency but unconvinced that he has a mandate to enact a sweeping new policy agenda, according to a Washington Post-Schar School national poll.

The poll finds Americans still reeling from Trump’s long battle against Hillary Clinton, with more than 7 in 10 saying the campaign made them angry and more than half feeling stressed out by campaign news. Trump’s supporters are largely ebullient when asked how they feel about the result, while Clinton backers range from disappointed to fearful to apoplectic.

Nationally, just 3 in 10 Americans — 29 percent — say he has a mandate to carry out the agenda he presented during the campaign, while 59 percent say he should compromise with Democrats when they strongly disagree with the specifics of his policy proposals.

That 29 percent figure is sharply lower than the 50 percent who said the same for President Obama after his first election in 2008 and the 41 percent for former president George W. Bush after the 2000 election and the contentious recount that followed.

I would love to see the demographics on that poll. Every time a Republican is elected to office, he is told that he will have to compromise. Every time a Democrat is elected to office, it is obvious that everyone approves of everything he wants to do–but the press is not biased! The Democrats chose not to compromise on ObamaCare, and we saw the fallout from that. Had they worked with the Republicans to make ObamaCare a viable program, the Republicans might not have been a majority since 2010.

The article at Hot Air concludes:

With that in mind, just how much trouble will Democrats cause over the next two years? Chuck Schumer might want to act obstructionist, but will Jon Tester, Joe Manchin, or even Tammy Baldwin want to play along after watching the way their states just dumped Hillary Clinton?

In truth, Trump will probably get some to play along just on policy. They’ll be on board for another round of federal stimulus spending, for instance, especially given the potential for seat-preserving pork in their home districts. But when it comes to most other Republican policy priorities and appointments, don’t expect Trump to need much “compromise” to get his agenda through Congress. Republicans painted the map red at all levels on November 8th, as big a repudiation of a party in the White House as we are ever likely to see. Even if voters might still feel some trepidation about Trump, there is absolutely no doubt that the GOP got a governing mandate in any sense of the word.

It is going to be an interesting four years.