In our weekly VIP Gold chat shows on Wednesdays (1:30 pm ET), my friend Cam Edwards often says, “Everything is stupid and it’s only getting worse.” Perhaps another way of saying this is that everything is broken, and everyone knows it — but does nothing about it.
At the Free Press, Oliver Wiseman picks up on that same sense of frustration in the electorate, and asks whether the political poles have changed. Forget Republicans and Democrats, progressives and conservatives, or even the class-warfare arguments, all of which nibble at the edges of this political moment. Wiseman recalls Tablet editor-in-chief writing about “brokenism,” and posits that the real divide is between those who see the wisdom of Cam’s perspective and those who want to protect the ruins of institutions that they themselves have ruined:
In January 2021, Newhouse wrote an essay…
