You can’t always get what you want, Dems

and naked intolerance straight out of the 1940s.

Of all the things progressives wanted but did not get Tuesday, a clear rejection of that hatred may be the most troubling.

But in mourning overmuch the things they did not get, progressives would risk failing to appreciate all the things they did. And that would be a mistake. They wanted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. They got it. They wanted to restore voting rights to more than a million former felons in Florida. They got it. They wanted to win gubernatorial races. They got it. They wanted to make the political landscape more colorful, more female, more Muslim, more LGBTQ. They got it. Most of all, they wanted to retake the House of Representatives. They got that, too. Which means that, for the first time in his misbegotten presidency — likely the first time in his misbegotten life — Donald Trump now faces accountability.

No more lying and lawbreaking while a bunch of invertebrates calling themselves a Congress look the other way. “Process server” is about to be a growth industry in Washington.

So any progressives dispirited by Jagger’s wisdom might do well to recall the rest of this lyric: “You can’t always get what you want,” he sang, “but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.”

And while progressives didn’t get all they wanted, they got enough to help ensure so-called conservatives and their so-called president cannot just walk all over us on the way to doing whatever godawful thing they want to do.

Yes, a better country would’ve reduced Trumpism to rubble. Unfortunately, here in this country, you and I must still deal with the forces of ignorance and intolerance. But here’s the thing:

Now they have to deal with us, too.