It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism Quotes

Today's Republican Party...is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and scienc...

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism

In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting compromise or solutions to pressing ...

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism

Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it a useful shibboleth for showing their fealty fiscal discipline, even as they vote to ratify the ...

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism