While I think this is a wonderful post, he does make it seem that this last 40 years is somehow something qualitatively different, and something beyond, the badness of American politics which had gone before.
With this I disagree. American politics has always been quite bad in ways more or less like this, for different and quite long standing reasons.
In addition to speculating that American politics has recently gotten even worse, one might, as well, inquire regarding ways in which, if any, it has, ever, gotten better.
If there were times, say under certain Presidential administrations (an inherently wrong criterion, in my judgment), where that seemed to be the case, was that impression illusory, or ultimately erroneous?
For example, take what I call The Lincoln Fallacy.
Britain had already had a much better solution, for the problem of slavery, than we did.
Read about it some time.
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