Here's my view: the Public clearly fell on our side. If the numbers hold out, we will have made gains in every branch and chamber of the US Government (including the Judicial Branch, since we won the Presidency). But people want things done, and we have to continue to look like the people who want things done.
That doesn't mean, though, that we have to take their shit. If they won't compromise, they need to be called on it. If they obstruct, we make it a public ordeal for them. The political pressure needs to be on them to fold, to change, or to lose their seats.
Because let's be blunt: we need to do one of two things over the next few years: break Republican obstructionism, or remove them as actual obstacles. Republicans need to be seen as the problem. Republicans need to be the ones who get kept after school.
Additionally, let's make this next midterm a full frontal assault on Republican numbers in Congress, and whatever relevant election years we have a platform for changing the margins in the State Legislatures, because the only reason Republicans have kept the house is that they rigged redistricting their way. We need to to exploit whatever demographic advantages we have to set back Republicans on their heels, and make it clear that they are a party in decline.
We need to create a consistent group of Republican voters who are liable to switch to Democrats, and to do that, we must constantly be able to paint the GOP as the obstructive side of the aisle.
Or put another way, Republicans need to be given every opportunity to prove that they are the problem that needs solving in Washington.