Democrats have no problem getting bills passed in the House. They'd need 60 seats in the Senate to make those bills law with a Democratic president, 66 with a

Democrats have no problem getting bills passed in the House. They'd need 60 seats in the Senate to make those bills law with a Democratic president, 66 with a Republican president. Majoritarian rule is not a feature of the US political system. It's a federation. The states elect the president, and the states control the Senate. Individual states are federations of counties. Politicians aren't held to account for massively unpopular policies (or failure to enact massively popular policies) because the electoral machinery simply isn't built that way.