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They only have a slim minority. What, 2 seats or so in the Senate? It wouldn't take many Republicans siding with them to flip. But it also would help if they didn't do things like vote in support of Trump's cabinet picks. And Republicans made it their entire existence to prevent things from happening when they were the minority power.

While I understand and generally agree with the idea, I think a large part of how we got here is that they've shown time and time again that even when they have power, they won't use it. They had how many decades to codify Roe? They kneecapped the ACA before the Republicans ever even saw it. People lost faith in them, both in their lack of flexing the power they had and in their taking their voter base for granted.