After Trump, congressional Republicans plan to keep doing the same thing

If Hillary Clinton is elected this fall, it will mark an unusual third straight defeat in presidential elections for Republicans and a historically unprecedented loss of the popular vote in six elections out of seven. And while nobody is sure yet how Donald Trump’s roiling of the party establishment will play out in future primaries, it’s clear enough that the party is settling in on a consensus view of how elected officials should respond in the short term — by doing the same thing they’ve been doing for the past...