(#5049) Good Juju, democrats will lead from the minority in the House

      The dust has pretty much settled from the 2022 midterm election. All in all the story of this election is the lack of much gain from republicans despite their overwhelming advantage gained through congressional district gerrymandering. They will have the majority in the House of Representatives but not a large majority like they had thought. The ability of democratic voters to thwart the advantage republicans had built into our political structuring speaks volumes about the wrong direction republicans would take our society. They are still the party of the wild west with no sheriff to interfere.
     So nothing much will get done in the House once republicans take control on January 3rd. It will be worth watching whether the republicans in the House decide to blow up our democracy by not funding critical programs and government entities. We shall see since they have no agenda to be servants of the people. They only serve the wealthy and keeping democracy intact is not their foundational strategy. I know that with democrats keeping the Senate the republican damage will be limited. They couldn't pull of a gerrymandering effect in Senate races so their success in the House is their only undermining democracy accomplishment.
     With President Joe Biden and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer leading the way the republicans may well be muted from doing much to destroy our democracy. There are ways around the worst of the republicans who are in the House and it wouldn't surprise me if a faction of republican House members work with democrats to keep government functioning over the next 2 years. As it stands now there are 213 democrats in the House and with 5 more moderate republicans agreeing with democrats on critical funding for government the concept of republicans uniting to make our democracy crumble is less likely than more likely.