"Which is to say, Trump, through malice and degeneracy, cost Republicans an opportunity to overperform the fundamentals in 2018, and provided Democrats an opportunity to do so last week. He overwhelms the fundamentals, or is a fundamental unto himself."
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I also more or less agree with 's assessment of Pelosi:
"Pelosi was a generational congressional leader, but a replacement-level political one. Her defining skills as a whip served the party well when the central stakes of politics were legislative ..."
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"... but were a poor fit for an era (particularly in 2019 and 2020) when vote counting was much less important than raw oppositional politics."
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