Why do the Democratic party have a problem with solidarity? Get behind your Speaker, unite, and move forward. Don't turn winning the House into an own goal. Otherwise, things could splinter like last time, and the devil could sneak through, again...
2 pts: 1) Shakespeare wrote the devil is a gentleman; 2) Most literary works depict the devil as smart - dt is neither a gentleman nor smart. Minor pts, but provide nuances to a metaphor.