According to Brookings the incoming Congressional freshmen will be the most educated:
and the least experienced:
in Congressional history.
Here’s my question. Is that good, bad, or will it make no difference? My vote is that it will make no difference for a simple reason. The performance of the Congress is based less on the rank and file and even less on incoming freshmen than it is on the Congressional leadership and the incoming Congressional leadership will have concentrated the most power in its hands than in any Congress in recent memory. It’s also the oldest leadership. Most of the leaders of the incoming Congress can remember when Truman was president.
Yes, and old people are generally conservative, even the liberal ones.
Power is the only ideology of the Congressional leadership.
That’s depressing.
Most academically credentialed, maybe. But not educated. Ocasio-Cortez, an American University graduate, is a prime example of this. I can only imagine how ‘educated’ the other newcomers to Congress are.
Agreed. Newcomers will get some coverage early, but will learn their places. In theory I guess that could organize and form their own left wing equivalent of the Freedom Caucus (The Commie Cabal?) but the old Will Rogers quote comes to mind.
Steve