[CoolestBeans]

McCarthy never came to the Dems to strike a deal (publicly) and its clear to me why that would have been a very last resort. Being seen negotiating with the enemy probably would have lost him votes in his own party as one of the big reasons to get the House majority is to obtain committee seats and whatnot. Furthermore, you’re attempting to break the other party’s unity while your own party is the more tenuously held together one. For the Democrats, they’re the minority in the House. Even if the loss wasn’t as big as many expected, they still lost. They don’t have much political capital to expend to try to create a compromise, especially with a more polarized voting population.