Respectfully-
I think the statement of party lines is a bit less skewed than 49-1 but for the sake of conversation (not argument, conversation) let's say it is. Please permit me to take some liberties in my thought process but even if 98% of DOE is comprised of what we used to call "card carrying" democrats, I can't help but question how that would make it "alright" or any different than what they did to us in 2022 (I haven't forgotten) about it being a justifiable action then because I'd wager the same argument was made in DU that 98% of those refusing the jab as a condition of employment were likely "MAGA" anyways. I'd offer the point that the argument is the same and leads to similar results and all but guarantees nothing will be fixed nationally but rather continues the 'tit for tat' strategy on both sides with each iteration 'upping the ante' with more government control, more loss of inalienable rights and the folks that we should be angry with continue to perpetuate this never-ending battle with not only impunity but also getting exactly what they wanted in the first place, more power.
If we really believe what we've spent the past 4 years saying we wanted about fixing things we have to abandon the strategy of "we'll get 'them' back now but this time even harder". As long as we do that, we're digging into the 'eye for an eye' strategy and you know what they say about leaving everyone blind I'm sure.
What I believe we need to see and what I hope is for us to stop looking at each other as "R's" & "D's" and start looking at each other as Americans and focusing on what unites us rather than separates us. It's going to be an awfully hard and long road too after generational brainwashing (on both sides). But it starts with where we focus our efforts and the rhetoric in which those efforts are conveyed.
Just for one term- I would like to see the focus being on the deeply rooted corruption that exists with both parties of our elected "leaders" while they line their pockets & enrich their donors (who often times are the same entities funding both sides) while we sit around fighting over table scraps and turning a blind eye to the profiteering our officials are engaged in and benefit through our petty bickering.
Until we have a bipartisan accountability and consequences, I doubt we'll ever be able to move past this cycle 'them vs us' cycle and each time the pendulum swings having the retaliation being more intrusive into our lives. We don't need to 'out do' the previous injustices against conservatives that we saw on the last 4 years, what we need is a pressure relief valve to be hit (like the insta-pots if you ever had one of those) nationally and a shift in focus but we need to have a new 'boogeyman' to replace the deeply entrenched D vs R fighting (just human nature).
TL/DR- It's disingenuous to earnestly believe that we can remove tyranny by trying to tyrant harder than what was done before and then act surprised that rather than eliminating tyranny we end up with more than we had before.