If We Can Preserve 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 fastened? These are the questions that inspire Michael Tomasky’s deeply unique examination into the origins of our hopelessly polarized nation. “One in all America’s best political commentators” (Michael J. Sandel), Tomasky ranges throughout centuries and disciplines to point out how America has nearly at all times had two dominant events which are existentially, and infrequently violently, opposed. When he turns to our present period, he does so with putting perception that can 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 might help repair our damaged political system―from ranked-choice voting and at-large congressional elections to increasing highschool civics schooling nationwide.

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

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