If We Can Hold It: How the Republic Collapsed and The way it Would possibly Be Saved

A game-changing account of the deep roots of political polarization in America, together with an audacious fourteen-point agenda for easy methods to repair it.

Why has American politics fallen into such a state of horrible dysfunction? Can it ever be mounted? These are the questions that encourage Michael Tomasky’s deeply authentic examination into the origins of our hopelessly polarized nation. “Considered one of America’s best political commentators” (Michael J. Sandel), Tomasky ranges throughout centuries and disciplines to indicate how America has nearly all the time had two dominant events which might be existentially, and infrequently violently, opposed. When he turns to our present period, he does so with hanging perception that may problem readers to reexamine what they thought they knew. Lastly, not content material merely to diagnose these issues, Tomasky gives a provocative agenda for the way we may also help repair our damaged political system—from ranked-choice voting and at-large congressional elections to increasing highschool civics training nationwide.

Combining revelatory information with trenchant evaluation, Tomasky tells us how the nation broke aside and factors us towards a extra hopeful political future.