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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    If there’s a way, no matter how small, for the Dems to squander this opportunity and wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory, they will leave no bland page of the most moderate and uninspiring speech unread to a near empty chamber.

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        Schumer’s and Jefferies are currently working directly against Democrats abilities to storm into a majority. If you only have the ability to lead in fair weather and favorable winds, you don’t have the ability to lead.

        These two in particular are doing material damage to Democrats abilities to barnstormer November.