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The Republican Brand of Civic Dysfunction

March 10, 2016 by PaulM Posted in Current Events, Politics Leave a Comment

It’s been a while since I’ve dragged over a link from my daily reading on the web, but this piece from the Brookings think tank by Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann seems to me to be spot on about what has corroded America’s civic culture. Here’s the link so you can decide for yourself.

 

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