Seeing people bring up parts of my “current constitutional crisis is the catastrophic failure of a complex system” thesis, so I’m going to elaborate on it here. This will be somewhat unorganized but here goes:
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Reposted from Josh Chafetz
1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.

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