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I jumped on with Jim Acosta Tuesday as returns came in, and the story in my backyard wasn’t subtle. In the DMV—Northern Virginia, the close-in suburbs, the I-95/I-66 corridors—voters slammed the brakes on the circus and picked competence.

You could see it precinct by precinct: the school-board scare tactics didn’t land, abortion bans got punished, and t…