It's Even Worse Than It Looks

I recently read How Democracies Die and I found this book to be very similar in its analysis but this is very American specific and makes no bones about hiding it. It looks at how the US federal government is not equipped to handle divisive partisan politics with the checks and balances peculiar to the system of government. It has some recommendations on how the system could be repaired and also some thought experiments on why some of the common ideas on how to reign in government maybe won't work. I found the ideas of how to improve the system to be very impractical in the current environment. I guess it's just a sad time and a sad book.