It’s hard to imagine our political situation getting worse, but it seems certain that it will. No matter who wins this dreadful presidential race, the people will lose. We won’t be able to say we didn’t see it coming; there’ve been plenty of warning signs. But there’ll be lots and lots of analysis around two key questions: “How did this happen to us?” and “What do we do now?”
Of course, by then the duopoly would have chalked up another victory, and such questions would largely be innocuous, having little to no effect on the realities of life in the nation’s “new” political order.