It has gotten worse, Price says, with the Tea Party and Trump takeover of the GOP: “The politics of the Republican base are driving it further to the right; this no longer is a center-right party. Price said, “Nancy Pelosi was the ideal Speaker to take on Donald Trump; she understood that, did it effectively, and led us back into the majority.” The key to the great challenge Pelosi faces over the next month in getting a compromise economic agenda through Congress, he said, will depend on most all Democrats “understanding the balance between individual objectives and institutional performance: You should fight as hard as you can for a point of view and — at some point — have to say, ‘We’ll leave some battles for another day.’”