...people are frustrated, tempers are short, congressmen are being shouted down at town hall meetings (where constituents sometimes show up with guns), and at rallies like the one yesterday in Washington where people carried signs...
Quelle horreur! That may make a ruling-class aspirant like Schieffer nervous, to be sure. But in fact, I can't think of a single period in American politics that looked like that - except the one between 1775 and now...