All indications are that the Democrats will underperform in the House this November. (They only have a majority of two right now - oh, how Chuck Schumer is jealous.) Assume the Democrats lose the House, but hold on to a thin Senate majority. What is or should be their plan for the next two years of divided government?
Presumably President Biden has already done everything at his discretion to advance his policy priorities. Will the Democrats stoop to the Republicans’ level - drop virtually everything from their platform and compromise on judicial and executive appointments? Will Biden & Cabinet start throwing everything they have - legally dubious or not - at the wall, hoping something sticks? Or has everything with a chance already been thrown? Will we be looking at a repeat of the Trump years, in terms of effective governance?
How can the Democrats survive two years of gridlock? Or will they simply consign themselves to another defeat in 2024? I mean, most of the rank and file that survive the midterms will be ultimately “safe”. Maybe there will be no plan, as in so many years prior, only whining and inaction. Maybe there can be no plan.
I’m not sure what you mean by this – if Democrats continue to hold a majority in the Senate, they don’t need to compromise on appointments.
Reagan, Clinton and Obama all went on to be comfortably reelected two years after suffering massive defeats in their first midterm. I assume the Democrat’s plan will be to paint the Republican House as a den of reckless, wild-eyed nutjobs who cannot be trusted with governance. I don’t imagine it will be too difficult.
You ever think about how dystopian it is that our elected officials have to continually beg us for money, and barring that, get big donations from corporations and plutocrats? What a profoundly broken system this is that money plays such a large role in who gets elected (and of course, the amount of money that gets quietly pocketed in the process).
Anyway, the plan will be to beg for money because that’s the only hope of winning in 2024.
I was thinking Republicans might ask the President to appoint a more conservative person as a concession when negotiating something entirely unrelated. Maybe that’s too far.
All three of these presidents lost control of Congress in their first term and never got it back. That has to put a damper on any political agenda. Clinton and Obama were succeeded by Republican presidents too. Reagan never had the House to begin with, and his party kept the presidency, but pre-Gingrich Republicans belong to a different era.
Clinton had massively more money than Trump. Currently the Democrats don’t have a fund-raising deficit compared to Republicans.
OP: all you need to do is to look at the Obama administration after he lost the Democratic majority. Basically, it will be a status quo administration. Biden will try to do things by changing regulations (particularly in the climate area). I expect many of these will be overturned by the Supreme Court.