Yglesias dances around the central conclusion of his piece. While rightly mocking Thomas Friedman's latest symptom of late stage prion disease, he sort of makes the case that we need to scrap the Constitution of 1788.
The fact is that presidentialism as a system of government is...bad. Countries - primarily in Latin America - that adopted our system of a Presidential-Congress system often slipped into despotism. Even as some have emerged, democracy is pretty dysfunctional.
Some form of parliamentary government is ultimately just better. Of course, we aren't getting that, but that's the reality.
The problem with American governance right now is not Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema, it's the underlying institutions.
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