The Tuesday midterm elections didn’t bring the whompin’ Newport Beach Wedge-style blue wave that Democrats had dared to hope for.

Nationally, there were disappointments in Georgia, Texas and Florida — not surprises, given those states blood-red makeups, but disappointments nevertheless, given the giddy pre-election dreams of those beaten down by just two brisk years of Trump.

Even so, despite the somewhat diminutive size of the wave, it was still a blue one, with Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives, and picking up a few keys to some governors’ mansions, while backsliding a bit in the Senate.

California, meanwhile, continued its impressive blue streak, with Gavin Newsom easily sliding into Gov. Jerry Brown’s spot in Sacramento, and some erstwhile dependably conservative congressional seats teetering on a color change: most notably Dana Rohrabacher’s 48th Congressional District spot, which he has captured easily for 30 years, with his closest past victory by 10 percentage points. On Wednesday, the former Reagan speechwriter and noted fan of Russia was narrowly trailing Republican-turned-Democrat Harley Rouda by 2,682 votes.

And, farther south, the seat vacated by the retiring Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, has apparently been won by Democrat Mike Levin.

It all comes out to an ever-deepening blue hue for the Golden State, which has taken it upon itself to be the No. 1 enemy of the Trump Administration.

California has an all-star line-up of elected officials who remain far outside Trump’s fan club. They include Gov. Jerry Brown and now Newsom, our state senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris and a host of representatives that includes Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu,  Maxine Waters and the soon-to-be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

California, which has the country’s No. 1 economy, and the fifth largest in the world, has not bent under or ceded much to the Trump administration. The state’s attorney general Xavier Becerra can’t sleep at night unless he’s spent the day suing Trump’s administration over everything it holds dear and tries to force upon the state.

California has already filed more than 40 lawsuits against the Trump administration on such issues as health care, immigration and energy policy. In maintaining his state’s sovereignty, when Trump ignored climate change, Gov. Brown famously stated “We’re going to launch our own satellite, our own damn satellite, to figure out where the pollution is, and how we’re going to end it, with great precision.”

So, California, already heavily blue, has added to its arsenal with Tuesday’s election, but now that the House has a majority, the state has to increase its role from being at the country’s vanguard in terms of resisting the current administration, to going on the offensive in moving the country forward.

With its powerful slate of representatives and regaining key committee chairmanships, it now has to go more on the offensive.

“Here’s the deal now,” said former Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, a moderate Republican. “They can’t just be resisting anymore. Now, they gotta do something positive and come up with good policy issues. Sure, they can still be a thorn in the side of the administration, but they have to say, hey, let’s come up with four or five good, strong points and let’s take credit for them and run the policy table.”

Of course, that will still entail cooperation from those who continue to cling to Trump’s scattered policies, but it’s worth exploring. Compromise is cool, however rare.

Some common ground may be found on infrastructure legislation; the literal rebuilding of America is something on almost lawmaker’s to-do list. It would be a good place to start, especially given Trump’s expressed interest in the problem.

But, if it’s done,  it should be a progressive policy, it shouldn’t involve a wall,  and it should start in California, where good ideas are born, and move on from there.