Since the beginning, the United States has built a system with bad and incompetent leaders in mind. I don’t buy the stuff about the United States’ democracy dying. Since then, right and left in the United States regularly vie for and lose power, frequently giving us deeply flawed leaders. They regularly miss the mark, which is why the parties, not the United States, suffer repeated near-death experiences, always followed by miraculous revival. When I was a kid, the United States didn’t come apart.

Source: Washington Post January 31, 2020 22:41 UTC