The Supreme Court’s war against civil war – by Jeff Eager

By concentrating power in the federal government and, specifically, in the hands of the president, who after all, runs the executive branch and appoints Supreme Court justices, Americans ignored the lessons of their fractious political history and came to believe it was possible for one person mostly to govern a continental republic without things going badly off the rails.

The postwar aconstitutional and ahistorical expansion of federal power heightens the risk presented by the political divisions we see today. Whichever party holds the presidency tries to force as many of its priorities on the entire country as possible before voters react to the overreach and vote them out of office. We have too much riding on the election of one person every four years. The system has become unstable and brittle.

via oregonroundup.substack.com

Too balanced to be reassuring.