Here is some fodder for Dems to use in their mid-term campaigns, IF they can translate the figures and charts for Democratic administrations versus Republican administrations over the course of the last quarter century into meaningful discourse and sound arguments as to why Dem admins are better for the economy- personal and overall.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is the most expensive reconciliation legislation in recent history

I’ve long harbored the suspicion that Democrats act disarrayed and often snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because both parties work for our collective donor class. So it’s entirely possible that Dems will not take as much advantage of the situation as is possible. Hate to sound so cynical but I don’t have a better explanation. It’s like, Trump’s trashing of America along with the 80-year old unprecedentedly prosperous world order that WE builtmakes perfect sense. If Daddy Vladdy is calling Trump’s shots.

Besides legacy media preferring the clickbait of a secondTrump administration, The Dems were not very good at selling their legislative accomplishments during Biden's term was largely because Joe didn’t have either the vigor nor sufficiently decent relations with said legacy media to effectively sell his results. Also, as a condition for stepping aside he insisted that Kamala run a “zero daylight between his and her positions” candidacy. He may have done so to ensure that she win the Presidency by running on his legacy. And as he never indicated that he’d roll some many or better yet ALL of the tax cuts going back to Reagan, as with Hillary, the female 2024 Democratic Presidential candidate lost to effing Trump.

Because offering more of the same doesn’t play so well after 45 years of Democrats rolling over because their donor class looooves those tax cuts just as much ae’s the Republicans do.

If their plan is TV commercials, they've already lost.

But as I read your estimations of the advantages the Democrats may have in the next election for Congress, predicting all kinds of happy wins and popular support for kicking Republicans out of office, I wondered.

Why, if this is all so clear, did Trump and his party pass this draconian budget in the first place? Why shoot themselves in the feet, both feet, for the coming contest over which party will control Congress next term, and possibly the White House the term after?

Just to benefit the billionaire class that holds their party's purse-strings? Couldn't that have been done at far less cost, by minimizing the billionaires' tax decreases to a token, but welcome, amount and maintaining the basic federal safety net that lower middle-class and working-class America depends on?

Or, as I've speculated here before, have the Republicans calculated that the Democrats' messaging may in fact NOT WORK? That the GOP base, dependent for its news on the dedicated right-wing channels, will never hear Schumer's and Jeffries' and Schatz's impassioned accusations of inhumanity, but will in fact hear (falsely) that all that suffering, all those closed hospitals and vanished Medicaid benefits and hungry poor children, is due to the machinations of the evil, communist, Democratic Party, God damn them?