“Depleted and uncharacteristically depressed, the American people now spin and shudder along the edge of the abyss. “
That’s how it feels, but I’m not sure there’s time enough for the fix he proposes (getting back to historical principles).
I liked one of the comments to the effect that separation was coming and someday citizens of the “Federation of Democratic States” would be bribing border guards with gas ration books so that they could escape into the “Republic of American States.” At this rate, it may come to that.
The comment on Cliodynamics (overproduction of elites) caught my eye. Granted, the theory is a short time scale (70 years) so doesnt get to a durable solution.
This one is good too ...
It’s worth remarking, of course, that the conjunction of authoritarianism and incompetence is not an unlucky accident, it’s inevitable, because once people in power find the job beyond them, they don’t retire in the shame of failure, they just use their power to enforce the compliance with their agenda that they failed to achieve through the persuasion that competence on their own part would have brought about.