“Orange County,” President Ronald Reagan famously said, “is where all the good Republicans go to die.”

“Orange County,” President Ronald Reagan famously said, “is where all the good Republicans go to die.”

Surely, 2018’s midterm election is not what the Gipper had in mind.

For when the ballots were fully counted last week, Democrats held control of all seven House districts touching the once-deep-red county, having flipped four Republican-held House seats located within the historical heart of America’s conservative movement.

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