"I’ve long felt that we’ve yet to come to terms with how the economic meltdown of 2008 and the flawed response are at the root of contemporary political discord"
....and then a black president got elected, which almost half of America viewed as a disaster because he tried to govern by bipartisan consensus instead of by Right wing Fiat... Then in 2016 the pendulum again swung back towards Hobbesian Reality while also swinging towards a Machiavellian modus operandi in the Trump years.. Democracy started to erode because Democracy is a government by consensus in its most protean design.
"I’ve long felt that we’ve yet to come to terms with how the economic meltdown of 2008 and the flawed response are at the root of contemporary political discord"
....and then a black president got elected, which almost half of America viewed as a disaster because he tried to govern by bipartisan consensus instead of by Right wing Fiat... Then in 2016 the pendulum again swung back towards Hobbesian Reality while also swinging towards a Machiavellian modus operandi in the Trump years.. Democracy started to erode because Democracy is a government by consensus in its most protean design.