Say what one might about Frum, but this strikes me as pretty plausible explanation of what’s happened to our system, and it indicates that fixing it is going to involve more than just kicking out one set of bums and voting in a new set. In the end, the people that sit in Congress are a reflection of the people who put them there and if Congress has become more polarized, it’s because the American public has become more polarized. It’s not longer enough to just disagree with someone, in today’s hyper-partisan atmosphere you have to question their sanity, their intelligence, their loyalty, or their motives. Is it any surprise that an environment like that create the kind of full-throated opposition we see in Congress today?Doug Macaconis is discussing a Frum article on the bygone days when parties maintain discipline. The point Frum makes is that we do not have a parliament, but instead have three separate branches of government. That situation only works when parties enforce a discipline that allows government to operate. Frum is a RINO, wanting to restore power and geniality to DC.
My point here is simple. Under stress, our Congress cannot work as long as the Senate is so disproportionately represented. Neither author wants to delve into the anti-democratic nature of the Senate, they want to preserve anti-democracy, it is a feature not a bug to these authors.
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