What is the country likely to see in the next few months and the next two years? Will it be chaos, conflict and occasional compromise, like the politics that followed the midterms in 1994? Or will it be earnest and sometimes heavy-handed congressional efforts to investigate and prevent presidential wrongdoing, like those that swept through Washington after 1974? Surprising midterm elections that create new majorities on Capitol Hill look to be revolutions in the days after they occur. Years later, they often appear to be more complex – and less significant