A C&C Special Edition— the Democrats' catastrophic, terrible, no-good polycrisis and how there's no good way for them to escape the reckoning. Corporate media is desperately trying to conceal what historians and political scientists call a “polycrisis.” A polycrisis happens “where disparate crises interact such that the overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part.” It describes where the political ground is destabilized from so many different directions at once that policymakers ultimately become paralyzed, usually while forming another gold-star committee to consider funding a new study on the destabilization. The modern Democratic polycrisis stands out as uniquely spectacular....