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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    Fascism has never been overthrown by limp oppoisition parties suddenly finding a spine. It’s either war, revolution or (in a few odd cases) a coup, such as the one carried out by Spain’s otherwise useless and corrupt king when Franco bit the dust.