"The Republicans have successfully kept government from functioning effectively at all levels to a surprising extent, and that has in turn discredited government." DK
You might think that loss of effectiveness is a new thing here.
Our system was designed not to be effective.
If you read Nevins' account of the run up to the Civil War, a thousand or so pages long, the main thing you take away is a relentless sense of endless drift.
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