Gotta spend a year "giving em a chance"

Year 2 you can't criticize because of midterms are coming and party unity.

Year 3 we likely just lost House and/or Senate and nothing can be done.

Year 4 is election year.

If we get a second term, the candidate is more rightwing because there was no primary for the people to drag them to the left. We likely still won't have both House and Senate, so nothing will get done.

Then the next election we actually get a primary, but general turnout is depressed because we just had 8 years of no real progress. So we end up with a Republican most of the time.

After 1 or 2 terms, Dems sweep elections and the cycle repeats. But it's faster to break than build, so we're starting off worse than we were except maybe a few social issues.