Sounds to me like: if all sides don't stop feeding culture warring trolls, there won't be any grownups like this left in Congress -

[....] Surprisingly, perhaps, Yarmuth didn’t blame Trump entirely for the crisis in Congress. “Trump didn’t cause it. It’s the one thing I won’t blame him for,” he said. As Yarmuth sees it, Congress was taken over by media-obsessed performance artists, who would rather attract attention than govern, starting with the rise of the Tea Party, in 2010. Conservatives who entered Congress that year—many of whom now identify with the Freedom Caucus—had no chance of enacting any legislation that President Barack Obama would sign, so, Yarmuth said, “all they wanted to do was blow things up.”

Yarmuth lamented the changes on Capitol Hill since his arrival, in 2007. “It was different when I got here,” he said. “There were Republicans who were really thoughtful and wanted to do things. The Republicans were engaged in discussions,” he said. Now, however, “you have a Republican Party that has no interest in governing.” Starting in 2010, he added, the G.O.P.’s far-right minority ritually began to oppose anything Democrats supported, including commonsense public policies, such as insuring clean water and clean air. They adamantly opposed Obama’s health-care plan, calling for it to be repealed and replaced—but never actually offering any viable alternative. “All these guys would do was throw red meat to their base and donors,” Yarmuth said. “It was all just symbolic.” [....]

Kinzinger's leaving too! After 6 terms. But not to retire! In his announcement video below, which I watched, he complains about nearly exactly the same things as Yarmouth, that Congress has become a mess and doesn't work, within exactly the same time frame as Yarmouth, 2009 and after. PLUS he stresses the money problem that Peracles does in a comment here. Mentions the impeachment, that he is proud of the other GOP members that voted for it as well. But is simply not clear what he is going to do about it after he leaves besides Country1st.com. What stood out to me as notable, that he doesn't talk about the political parties at all, doesn't mention them. Just implies politics is broken and things got to change. Not at all what he's going to do about it, but still implies he's going to be working at fixing it, it's like a "stay tuned" thing. Not negative or defeatist tone at all.

NYTimes says he implied he might be running for something higher, but I didn't hear that, was more cryptic, I'd say one can't be sure, could also be trying to do an Andrew Yang type of thing or an organization working for campaign reform somehow, it was just a "stay tuned". Again, was being notably non-partisan, not that "the GOP is broken" or "Trump ruined it" but that Congress and politics is broken.

Copy of a tweet I just put on the old Virginia governor's race thread, because it applies here even moreso

says it all about Youngkin's win, from @lawlorbrendans Hillary Clinton Democrat, Social Liberal, Moderate, Capitalist, Neocon, Never Trump, Anti-Populism

Youngkin is giving an excellent speech and has very reasonable policies he is promising to implement. You can see why he won

— Brendan (@Lawlorbrendans) November 3, 2021

Also hearing lots of pundits on CNN right now that Democrats need to run on something beyond "against Trump." That the majority of voters in off-presidential year elections really do want policies,not just a personality that kicks ass.