It is so frustrating to spend tons of time reading and thinking about a policy problem only for pretty much every solution to be foreclosed by the fact that the GOP has broken American governance — and then to feel like you're being some kind of blinkered partisan as a result
It really is the case that the American political system is designed around the major factions in power acting in good faith. The system fails when one isn't.
That's what's happening! It's at the root of a huge number of our problems!
That's what's happening! It's at the root of a huge number of our problems!
And yet, it feels off to focus on this problem so much — like it's reductive or cheap. Writers are supposed to have complex solutions to complex problems, to sound smart and disinterested.
Yet today, the basic problem is excruciatingly simple — but devilishly hard to solve.
Yet today, the basic problem is excruciatingly simple — but devilishly hard to solve.
Confession time: I'm terrified of cognitive biases. I spend huge amounts of time thinking about how to mitigate them, and I know partisan brain can be one of the most powerful warping forces imaginable.
But how do you resist the obvious conclusion here? fivethirtyeight.com/features/in-am…
But how do you resist the obvious conclusion here? fivethirtyeight.com/features/in-am…
This @chrislhayes piece does a good job getting at the dynamics here, especially in his conclusion, with a lot less handwringing about how it makes us pundits feel to have to talk about things in partisan terms theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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