Democrats Won the Gavels. The Veto Pen Still Sits on the Resolute Desk.

The midterm wave was real. So is the Constitution. Conservatives should stop mourning and start using every tool the president still holds for the final two years.

By Clara Hughes

Within hours of Tuesday's results, the official White House account posted a photograph of a stern President Donald Trump behind his Oval Office desk with a five-word caption: "Trump is still your president," BBC News reported. Liberal commentators laughed. They should not have. The BBC's North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher put it bluntly: even without control of Congress, American presidents still have broad powers — and if Democrats try to curtail Trump through legislation, "the Constitution provides Trump with a uniquely formidable response – the presidential veto." That is the point every discouraged conservative needs to hear this weekend. Democrats own Congress come January. They do not own the presidency. And the next two years are not a surrender period unless Republicans choose to treat them like one. Keep reading with Altas Premium. Below: the override math Democrats can't reach, the "blame game" bills they will send anyway, what executive power can and can't do, and a five-point playbook for using the