There are Democratic Party people and aligned people who are realistic about why they lost and who they lost. They have contacts within the Party. Hopefully they’ll be listened to.
We’ll probably get a sense of what if any changes we will see in the upcoming special elections to fill House seats Trump is looting for his Cabinet. Then I believe Florida law requires an election pretty soon to replace Rubio, so that will be a national race we can watch.
Presumably whoever DeSantis appoints will have a pretty big advantage, but we should watch the message and the votes. It will be too early to be a full reaction against Trump, so we can learn a lot about what resonates with voters.
If most voters were tuned in to politics to the point they cared about the outcome of a party committee ranking member vote, we wouldn’t be in the 2nd Trump administration, and MAGA probably wouldn’t exist.
The Oversight leadership vote is the product of the bad 2024 messaging and bad outreach.
That’s why I mentioned upcoming elections: they will show us what the Democrats learned about messaging to voters they need to win.