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Let’s hope DC listens to the voters’ OTHER message — and actually starts working together

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Post Editorial Board. (2026, November 5). Let’s hope DC listens to the voters’ OTHER message — and actually starts working together. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/11/04/opinion/lets-hope-dc-listens-to-the-voters-other-message-and-actually-starts-working-together/

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The article discusses the potential for bipartisan cooperation following a political shift in Washington. President Trump and incoming Democratic leaders like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer made initial overtures towards working together, citing voter expectations for compromise and collaboration. The piece emphasizes the need for both parties to move beyond ideological differences and focus on issues where they can agree, such as immigration reform and lowering costs for Americans.
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In the wake of a significant shift in Washington power following the November 2026 elections, both Republican and Democratic leaders have made initial efforts to foster bipartisan cooperation. President Donald Trump suggested working together on immigration issues, while incoming House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) pledged to seek common ground with Republicans to bring about meaningful change. Despite the new majorities in Congress, Democrats will still need Republican support to pass legislation due to the possibility of a presidential veto. The challenge now lies in addressing voter concerns like the affordability crisis through principled compromise rather than partisanship.

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🔮 Good: “Modest losses” would have deceived them into “believing they could continue on the same path.” Iconoclast: Democrats’ Coming Civil War “The Great Democratic Crack-Up starts now,” notes The Free Press’ Peter Savodnik, after months when “anger and divisions have been bubbling up — the uber-progressive left pushing back against what it views as a feeble and feckless Democratic leadership, the leadership trying to hold things together.”
🔮 House Speaker-to-be Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) offered his own olive branch, vowing: “We are ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground with the other side of the aisle” to “bring about meaningful change.”
🔮 The American people sent a clear message that they don’t want to squander blood and money fighting foreign conflicts that have caused harm to the American economy, and that politicians will be held accountable for false promises (“In the deep blue seize,” Nov. 4).
🔮 All this is Vladimir Putin’s tone-setter for next week’s talks in Abu Dhabi, where the likes of special envoy Steve Witkoff will again try for a full ceasefire.
🔮 Most Americans would call that a victory, but Democrats call it heartless.
🔮 The paper last month impressed its usual critics by tracking down damning details of how Democratic candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited a strawman candidate sharing the same name as the Republican incumbent, a ploy that, in concert with the state’s ranked-choice-voting rules, could make her the winner even if more people meant to vote for the real Dan Sullivan.
🔮 This “project will gut the heart of the American system of government” and lead us to the brink of a new “Civil War.”
🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani gave away the problem with his comments on the Bronx tragedy, first calling it a “horrific reminder of the danger that lithium-ion battery fires can pose” but then simply pleading with New Yorkers to “store any micromobility devices outside rather than inside their homes.”
🔮 The “effort by the liberal establishment to undo populism” will gain new life if “Democrats regain control” of Congress,” argues UnHerd’s Alicia Nieves.
🔮 It looks like Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s getting a wish-granted monkey-paw style: MTA buses are now de-facto free — at the price of making them increasingly dangerous and blowing a disastrous hole in the agency’s finances.
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Incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (also D-Brooklyn; can we hope for inter-borough amity with the prez from Queens?) was more defiant, declaring: “The days of Trump’s supplicant Senate are over.” But he still nodded to the larger point: “Voters did not give us the majority so we can do whatever we want,” he admitted, “they entrusted us with the majority to do what they — the American people — want.”
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🔮 House Speaker-to-be Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) offered his own olive branch, vowing: “We are ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground with the other side of the aisle” to “bring about meaningful change.”

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Both sides made bipartisan noises Wednesday in the wake of Tuesday’s seismic shift in Washington power; let’s all hope it truly opens an era of lawmakers working together for the American people. asserted
lawmakers → make → people
That’s what most voters want, but it’ll mean both Republicans and Democrats looking past their differences and opening up to principled compromise. asserted
Republicans → ’ → compromise
Again, the initial signs are good: “I can work with [Democrats] on a lot of things,” President Donald Trump said, pointing to immigration as one area in particular as ripe for cooperation. He not only can “get along” with Dems he said; “they’ve already called” to “talk about things, and that’s fine. asserted
that → work → things
Trump correctly notes that, despite their new majorities, Dems won’t have enough votes to override his veto, so they’ll have to work with him to get anything passed. asserted
anything → note → him
House Speaker-to-be Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) offered his own olive branch, vowing: “We are ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground with the other side of the aisle” to “bring about meaningful change.” asserted
We → offer → change
His top priority: “the affordability crisis” — though only time will tell if he accepts that compromise there means bending on such things as the rush to end all fossil-fuel use, which is driving up energy costs. asserted
which → tell → costs
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (also D-Brooklyn; can we hope for inter-borough amity with the prez from Queens?) was more defiant, declaring: “The days of Trump’s supplicant Senate are over.” But he still nodded to the larger point: “Voters did not give us the majority so we can do whatever we want,” he admitted, “they entrusted us with the majority to do what they — the American people — want.” asserted
they → income → what
Now he just needs to admit that they want both sides to bear down and work together. asserted
sides → need → ?
More coverage of the 2026 midterm elections: - Live updates on the midterm elections - Far-left tees up AOC for 2028 presidential run after midterm blue wave - asserted
left → tee → wave
DeSantis 2028 buzz builds after Florida withstands blue wave: ‘Only reason Florida didn’t fall’ - asserted
Florida → build → wave
Dems eye 56-seat Senate majority as blue tsunami washes out GOP - asserted
tsunami → eye → GOP
Dems eye targets for sweeping investigations of the ‘Trump Crime Family’ after midterms blowout asserted
Dems → eye → blowout
Also encouraging: Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-Texas) cites “a wide variety of issues that [Dems and Trump] can work together on,” including immigration reform, cutting red tape, promoting housing and lowering costs for Americans. asserted
Dems → cite → Americans
More: “We have to build bridges in this country, we have to repair the ties that bind us together”; people are upset with the “extremism” on both sides. asserted
people → have → sides
Talarico even praised Trump on a red-flag issue: “He has done a better job than the previous administration in securing our border. asserted
He → praise → border
Obviously true, but very few Dems have dared say so: Can others, to deliver for the America people, join him in recognizing where Republicans have done well — and resist shooting down good ideas just because the GOP backs them? asserted
GOP → dare → them
Of course the party’s crazies will resist; they want Schumer and Jeffries to hold endless show trials of Republicans, as well as to push for radical agendas that will go nowhere amid the gridlock. asserted
that → resist → gridlock
Democrats serious about progress will push the extremist loudmouths (including the antisemites) to the margins, where they belong. asserted
they → push → margins
Republicans, too, will need to face down their cranks and kooks. asserted
Republicans → need → cranks
For a decade, Democrats’ approach was all-out #Resist Trump; can they move on? asserted
they → move → decade
One good start would be joining to pass Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s bipartisan permitting bill ASAP: It speeds up approvals for an “all of the above” approach to energy, both green projects and fossil-fuel ones, to directly address affordability. Don’t just talk cooperation; stand down now, and start working together for the people. asserted
It → join → people
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