SCARBOROUGH, ONT.—Tuesday’s midterm Blue Tsunami was breathtaking in its extent and severity. In the U.S. President Donald Trump’s universe of the World Wrestling Entertainment the loss of both the House and the Senate was a major smack-down of a deeply unpopular president and his supine party. Still, the more important question is this: even with the win, will it make any difference?

America has travelled a deeply troubling road of governance and shows little ability to correct course. Corruption is no longer an occasional blemish; it appears to have become an operating model. To borrow and mangle a familiar Trump aphorism, “it is corruption on a scale the country has never seen before.” The promise was to drain the swamp. Instead, the swamp has grown, fed by cryptocurrency ventures, self-dealing, luxury aircraft, a market for pardons, and the sale of ambassadorships, among other alleged abuses of public trust.

Voters are beginning to see the imbalance: Trump and his circle seem to be prospering, while ordinary Americans are struggling. CNBC has reported that corruption has climbed to the top of voters’ concerns, ahead of the cost of food, transportation, housing, and inflation. These issues are inseparable. When public office becomes a route to private enrichment, the costs eventually show up in the lives of ordinary people. The surprising thing is not that voters have noticed, but how long it has taken. It maybe that Tuesday night was a harbinger of better things.

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