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It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism
by Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann
The authors spend most of their pages setting the stage, explaining why Congress as an institution is polling at record lows and what got us to this point. They then introduce a noble wishlist of policy recommendations that will hopefully prompt legislators and voters alike to be civic-minded and "play nice." But if the past several years of Washington gridlock have taught us anything, it's that gamesmanship reigns supreme on the Hill. Barring a push by the public to rewrite the rules, changes to divisive policies like the filibuster will themselves get bartered and bargained in the same closed-door negotiations that got us here in the first place.