re: #311 Blind Frog Belly White
While the demographics favor us taking back the House on a more permanent basis in the future (hence the ferocious gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc), the structure of the Senate will make it tend the other way.
It’s clear that the GOP was willing to trade the Senate for this seat, because they know that Kavanaugh’s average life expectancy at his current age is 27 years, and he’ll probably live longer than that, whereas they might lose the Senate for 2-4 years, but they’ll eventually get it back.
But at least Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will not be under attack by the House any longer. Of course, we may be totally ungovernable then. The legislature will not be able to accomplish anything. I believe this happened in 19th Century Poland where a single objection in the legislature was sufficient to render any legislation null and void. This does not bode well for the country.