As co-rulers of the House, the Democratic majority-in-waiting may have already arrived

When House Democrats narrowly lost their majority in 2022, they did not expect to be the party that saved a Republican speaker from banishment.

But in the topsy-turvy world of today’s House, Democrats on Wednesday evening rode to the rescue of a conservative congressman-turned-speaker and cemented their status as co-rulers of a deeply dysfunctional lower chamber in the process.