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As in hard-core partisans retain most of their pathology but some who are more moderate come together and start narrowing that partisan gap?
We certainly saw that on Tuesday.
Agree 100% that Trump is a symptom, not the disease. But Tuesday showed decreased virulence, and even some suggestion that healing may be beginning, and it began where it has to occur if things are to get better -- in the electorate!
Not to be Pollyanna. Those who fostered this disease have had a bad setback, but they're not gone. The divide they conquered us with is still real. And it's likely that elections for some time to come will shift power back and forth between overly partisan factions through narrow margins of victory.
But still. Change in the right direction has happened, and I'd adjust that 20-year prediction. We're electing nonwhites all over the place, more than ever, proving the power of those who are good with it far outweighs the fear and rage of the backlash, which may be dwindling substantially. For another consideration in a constellation of them, don't forget that white supremacists already average old and that most will stop voting years before they actually drop dead.
Until Monday it was known that, generally speaking, majorities in urban areas voted Democratic, while majorities in suburbs, rural areas and smaller towns voted Republican.
Tuesday's results show voters in the suburbs went majority Democrat. 
They show that Republicans lost a lot of support from conservative women. 
They even show that rural regions are now slightly less red than they had been. 
They show that more people voted this time -- more for us and against Republicans. 
Bottom line: America has shifted left, both because more people voted, including millennials, and because support on the right for Trump and Republican policies has weakened.
This is despite Trump's intransigent, hostile base, and oh well. Strong authoritarians, and they are, will not turn against their leader until they are forced to recognize that their strong man is actually a loser and weakling. But they're a minority whose support is weakening.
It may be that support for Trump/Repub right wing extremism peaked sometime in the past year (when they were putting children in cages?) and then started dropping and that that is what the midterm results are showing. We'll see, but I'm feeling pretty hopeful.
I also live in a very red town, and usually the R primary is the only election that matters.
But, the election of Obama energized the younger voters and between 2008 and 2016 the few Dems in the area almost took over the county board, got the mayor-ship of the town, and got a few more in a few other positions. We were actually making in-roads for the first time in decades.
But this past Tuesday, we lost... everything. Every single D on the local ballot was crushed, some even losing to third and fourth party candidates.
I want to move out of this backwards, hick place so much... 
But your place needs you .. Stay put and fight for what is right.
