Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.

“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.

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    The idea that an organic, grassroots movement can overcome current oligarch control over media and politics is nonsense.

    It has happened in many other countries, and I don’t believe in American exceptionalism.