eh, if Democrats had 250 House seats like they did in 2008, they could get a lot more aggressive while also giving members in the reddest areas room to specifically break from the party (yes, you'd have more purple seat members, but it'd be easy to get some to play along at any given time).
May 11, 2025 15:43you can't pull the card of a mandate when you only win 222 house seats in a D+2 popular vote. big reason that the 2019 House caucus could afford to be that aggressive was that they washed into office on a D+7 wave.
