Opinion: Are Democrats facing their own Tea Party-style reckoning?
A wave election in midterms leading to a new House majority, won with victories by moderates in swing districts. A few freshman members in some of the safest seats in the country pursuing an ideologically “pure” agenda that riles up the party’s base but could endanger the moderates who were essential to winning the majority.In 1994, I was part of a Republican wave that retook the House for the first time in four decades.
For Democrats, letting the tail wag the dog is a no-win formula. And already, Republicans are seeing a resurgence of sorts. That said, simply opposing a president from the opposition party doesn’t, in itself, mean your party is going to stick together. You can unite the opposition enough to paper over intraparty differences some of the time, but eventually those differences will come to the fore.
In Congress, a leader’s success generally stems from the ability to do two things: move legislation and reelect members. Pelosi has no equal in the first category. However, with no realistic chance of enacting laws without a Trump signature, her ability to do anything besides messaging is limited—which makes it more complicated to do the second category.
Lesson 3: Do not let the most vitriolic and uncompromising members of your party set the policy agenda.
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