Chuck Todd

You can't botch it this next time when they have when they get all three.

Or it's just impossible to ever succeed when you have all three.

It's not like any party can hold it for more than two years.

Question is, what do you get done and do you turn the corner?

And I think sometimes we look at, and I think it's fair, I think some on the left look at the election of Trump in 16 and think, well, it turns out Obama should have done more, should have pushed harder.

It wouldn't have mattered if Trump was coming anyway, what would you have done if you knew that, right?

So I guess that that's gonna be one of the arguments.

But as for Congress, I think that's a guardrail.

I think it's so weak that it can't get weaker, that I do think you're going to have more and more members of Congress getting elected hoping to stop imperial presidencies.

Maybe I'm being Pollyannish here, but I – it is –

We have – when you go through as many, the more one-term presidents we have, the more we're going to look to strengthen the other elected institution, the legislative branch.

So I think that even though the presidency keeps getting strengthened, one-term presidencies are a sign of weakness of the president.

So in theory, Congress should be able to accumulate its power back.

but I don't have a good answer for you, because I get it.

You have one side that's willing to cheat.

I just don't think, and break norms and rules and all those things.

And I just, you know, I believe that the elections that the Democrats have succeeded in are because they've made the case to this group of voters in the middle.

They're not in the middle because they're ideologically, they're in the middle because they don't expect to get 100 percent of everything.

They understand that this is essentially a compromise system and they don't like the hardcore partisanship and they keep voting against any party that behaves too partisanly.

And there's a difference between partisanship and ideology.