Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship

illustration of a classical Greek-style building with columns and a triangular pediment, resembling a temple or bank, set against a yellow background. The building appears stable, but the ground around it is cracked.

2024-07-18  1001  困难

Such violence strikes at basic tenets of democracy: that differences are resolved via elections and peaceful transitions of power. It also challenges one of the most reliable economic relationships of modern times: between democracy and prosperity. Often, the causality is thought to run from wealth to voting. But democracy, and the rule of law intrinsic to it, is crucial to accumulating and maintaining wealth. Is this relationship now coming unstuck? And should Americans long for a return to stable bipartisanship?

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