Divided government increases cooperation and prevents extreme policies.
Fisher 22 [Marc Fisher; associate editor at Washington Post; 11-17-2022; Senate, House control is split. Can a divided government make progress?; Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/17/divided-government-senate-house-control/; 7-20-2024; AO]
Divided government has “happened before, and it usually happened after a president didn't do a real good job of providing for the country,” she said. A power split could “ideally cause them to have to get together and work things out.”
In New Britain, Conn., Gonzalo Ortega, a 19-year-old college student studying engineering, voted for Republican challenger George Logan in a hotly-contested congressional race not so much to make progress on any particular policy, but because “it keeps both sides in check. It doesn’t allow either side to do anything too extreme.”