The new concierge of the Wall Street Journal’s “Best of the Web” column, James Freeman, makes an interesting observation, in this instance about the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as associate justice of the Supreme Court:
When the most politically active young adults in the Democratic Party are urging restraint in pursuing the liberal agenda, it’s probably a good sign that party leaders are going too far.
Our political problem didn’t start a week ago or a month ago or on January 20 or on election day. It started years earlier.
We have far too many superannuated student radicals in both houses of the Congress. Playing power politics requires more than 50% + 1 vote. You’ve got to have overwhelming power to make it stick.
If moderation and compromise have become truly impossible, it’s either time for basic electoral reform, reform that goes far beyond the Electoral College, or an amicable divorce.
No, not me, the system is working, It just swings to the extremes, leave the constitution alone.