For the last decade or more, whenever it came up in conversation, I would tell people that I thought the U.S. system wasn’t long for this world. Everyone acted like I was crazy and would ask why I thought that.
I would tell them that the one—the only—thing that the two sides of the American political system agree on is how much the American political system deserves to die. For one side in recent years, it was never any good from the start and should have been killed years ago. From the other side in recent years, it had been corrupted by the other side and was now evil.
But both sides agreed that it needed to go, and have done for years. What did we think was going to happen?
And even if it somehow still doesn’t happen now, it’s only a matter of time, as both sides deepen in their agreement, day by day.