September 28, 2026 — The American political system is broken. We should ask how it got that way and should hope that the answer could contain a clue as to how it might get back on track.
Of course, many factors are at play. The long list includes things that cry out for reform, like gerrymandering of Congressional districts. But most will not bear the weight of being identified as a single fundamental exogenous cause of all the others, nor explain why this has happened now, in the early decades of the 21st century.