The winter doldrums have arrived for Republicans on Capitol Hill. It’s not just the party’s losses up and down the ballot this past month—which intensified last night when Republican Matt Van Epps notched a mere nine-point victory in the Tennessee congressional district that Trump previously won by 22 points. There’s also a growing sense that leadership isn’t grappling with the likelihood of a Democratic wave in the midterms, which would relegate House Republicans to the minority. Indeed, after reopening the government last month, lawmakers have no significant legislation on the docket to debate before the end of the year. Now the finger-pointing stage of the political cycle has begun.