David Brooks:
Yes.
I sort of think mandates went out the window some decades ago. Nancy Pelosi had a five-seat majority. Did she try any less hard than if she had had a 100-seat majority? No. She's the speaker. So she gets to be the speaker. And if Kevin McCarthy is the speaker, he gets to be the speaker.
What can they do and how will they behave? I think they want to do something on immigration. And it wouldn't be crazy for Democrats, if they can find something to pass, to take — that issue off the table a bit for them.
Other than that, the investigations, which everyone is talking about, I think they'd be utterly crazy to have investigations first. There's one thing which is accountability. That's fine. What's happening on the border? What can HHS, should they be doing?
But if they're just going to go after Hunter Biden, if there's one thing we have learned over the last 10 years, the American people are just sick of everything turning into scandal investigation. If Donald Trump is not laid low by scandal, then nobody's going to get laid low.
And so I think that would just be a catastrophic mistake.
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