we wouldn't have even HAD those majorities in Congress. And then NOTHING would have gotten done. That's what the Republican sweep in 2010 was: it was us losing our swing districts.

Again, I'm not saying that conservative Democrats are good people, or even that they'll usually take the right side. But progressives need to get over this delusion that we command majority support in this country. We don't. We need to find ways to govern DESPITE an electorate that will be suspicious of us for the foreseeable future.