Even in preppy Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania Congressman Conor Lamb has got this reputation for being buttoned up.

A while back, he actually made a list of all the ways journalists have described him.

Some personal favorites were, you know, plain vanilla reminiscent of a well-pressed pair of khakis or something like that.

The one that always got the laugh, like the punchline, was he looks like the kind of guy that Taylor Swift would dump in a music video.

It could be a good thing. Like Swift would dump in a music video. That could be a good thing.

Like, you're in the music video.

Well, that's what I said.

Like, at least I was in the game with Taylor Swift.

Like, if she's dumping me, it means I made it to, like, that level, right?

So.

Because he was elected as a Democrat in a district that also elected Donald Trump,

Representative Lamb has often been seen as a kind of bellwether,

an object lesson in reaching voters as Democrats have lost ground with over the last few years.

No one calls Lamb a progressive.

In fact, some journalists, after noting his Oxford shirts and commenting on how straight-laced he is, they call him conservative.

Do you think that's a fair description of you?

No, I don't. I think I'm right square in the center of where the Democratic Party is and has always been.

You've also described yourself as a compromiser fairly regularly.

I think that's fair, though.

That is fair, and I'm actually, I'm proud of that.

His reputation as a compromiser is why I found it so surprising that Representative Lamb

got on Twitter the other week to voice's support for blowing up the filibuster.

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