Before Ronald Reagan made being a Republican cool, he joked that all the conservatives in Washington could fit into a phone booth. When the two political parties held orientations this week for their newly elected members of Congress, it became very clear how much things have changed. Republicans are a hundred strong, filling hotels and restaurants and crowding into welcome receptions. Democrats, however, might want to dust off that Reagan-era phone booth. There are only nine members in the House Democratic freshman class, and “shell-shocked” is the word that one of them, Representative-elect Karen Bass of California, used to describe her and her colleagues’ reaction.
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