Depends on how much spine the Democrats have. You’ve had good explanations of the playing field, but in concrete terms while the Democrats can’t do new things without negotiating with Trump (and vice versa) they can undo old things, for example stopping the war in Iran, impeaching Pete Hegseth (they’d need some Republican defectors, but for Hegseth it’s possible to get those) and impeaching Trump (they can’t actually convict without those same Republican defectors, but they can launch an actual investigation now). Perhaps more importantly, they have majorities in various traditionally red and heavily gerrymandered state legislatures, so they can turn the electoral maps there into something reasonably sane and break the GOP’s stranglehold on some of them (which is based more on gerrymandering than on actual popularity).
Depends on how much spine the Democrats have. You’ve had good explanations of the playing field, but in concrete terms while the Democrats can’t do new things without negotiating with Trump (and vice versa) they can undo old things, for example stopping the war in Iran, impeaching Pete Hegseth (they’d need some Republican defectors, but for Hegseth it’s possible to get those) and impeaching Trump (they can’t actually convict without those same Republican defectors, but they can launch an actual investigation now). Perhaps more importantly, they have majorities in various traditionally red and heavily gerrymandered state legislatures, so they can turn the electoral maps there into something reasonably sane and break the GOP’s stranglehold on some of them (which is based more on gerrymandering than on actual popularity).