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These two political scientists are very credible. One is liberal and the other is conservative. Their research is well done. I highly recommend their book.
This is good reading. What do you think?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...created-dysfunction-now-theyre-paying-for-it/
This is good reading. What do you think?
In TheoryOpinion
Republicans created dysfunction. Now they’re paying for it.
By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein March 8
Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and resident scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A new, expanded edition of their book, “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks,” will be out April 5.
“The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.” That passage, which framed a core part of the argument of our 2012 book, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, was vilified by conservative commentators, called a rant and a parody.
Fast forward to 2016. Incredibly, Republican destructiveness is even worse than it was four years ago — and the party is paying for it with a surge of anti-establishment populism that is tearing apart its coalitional base.
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The most promising route to a healthier democracy and less dysfunctional government almost certainly runs through the electoral process. Yet democratic accountability is not easily achieved during a period of polarized parties, divided government and hotly contested national races on an ever-diminishing competitive terrain, especially when that process is rigged to prevent decisive outcomes. The Trump disaster, especially if it leads to a Democratic sweep of the 2016 elections, may provide the basis for a major rethinking and realignment of a deeply dysfunctional Republican Party.
Then again, it may not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...created-dysfunction-now-theyre-paying-for-it/