Michelle Goldberg's column examines James Talarico's Texas Senate win — by 12 points in a state Donald Trump carried by almost 14 — and his pledge, delivered in a Denver speech offering to work with Trump, to transcend the meanness of modern politics. Goldberg finds his outreach slightly jarring but reads it as a tacit rebuke of Trumpism rather than accommodation, while calling it an open question how much unity is possible in Trump's Washington.