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If the GOP sweeps both chambers and form a supermajority they will be in the position where they are expected to deliver what their constituents were promised without any opposition. Hell of a tight-rope given the scale of their promises and how rabidly sure the GOP base is on their ability to deliver.

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The GOP won't have a supermajority, as the word is usually understood (i.e., having more than two thirds of the seats in the Senate). They'll have barely more than half the seats in both houses. So they can pass some things using the reconciliation process, but can't pass general legislation without Democrat support or abolishing the filibuster.

The average voter isn't going to make that distinction, they are just going to equate it to "in power, didn't deliver".

You remember when Democrats were pushing to abolish the filibuster, because it kept them from being able to push through what they wanted to do?

Yeah, right now is why that was a bad idea.

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