Republicans panic over Trump tariffs: Last time "we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years"

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43. You need to go back another 20 years to 1933 and FDR, starting with the 73rd Congress

when Democrats controlled both chambers, until the 80th Congress, when the GOP finally made a breakthrough, post-WWII, with Truman in office.

That 1930s era was when the tariff mess was going on, where Smoot-Hawley had been passed in 1930 with the 71st Congress (all GOP-controlled). The latter part of the 72nd Congress ended with a split and a (D)-controlled House + (R)-controlled Senate for the 2nd session, and Democrats took it all with the 73rd.

So 1933 - 1947 is 14 years right there.

After that brief interlude of (R) control with the 80th, the 81st Congress was back to (D)-majority again starting 1949. And then it switched back again to (R) with the 83rd Congress in 1953, and then to a split (D)/(R) in the Senate (House still majority-(D)), with the 84th, and finally from the 85th Congress all the way to the 104th Congress that began in 1995, it was all-(D).

So in reality, the (R)s only had about 4 years (5 if you count the split with the Senate at the end of the 84th for the 2nd session but then that would cancel out due to 72nd Congress split of (D)s in control of the House), where 1995 - 1933 = 62 years, and then subtract 4 years over that period when (R)s were in total control, and you have 58 years, which is close enough to 60!

I know my history/poly-sci mom lived through that and talked about it alot!