This story is adapted from the Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. After suffering a historic rebuke in this week’s midterms, the infamously brash Donald Trump sounded almost chastened. “We’ll, you know, look forward to working with them,” he said of Democrats in a subdued election-night phone call with the New York Times. “We’ll probably work something out.” Even as Trump emphasized his power to veto legislation, his postelection comments led some to imagine that a humbled dealmaker in chief might really be willing to play ball. “Donald Trump may be...