As with all such arguments about how to manage excessive partisanship, I tend to think the solution is to reduce partisanship. Rules aren't going to save us from ourselves.
Joe Biden's senility is a big deal in terms of "optics" but it would probably not have been a big deal in practice. Reagan was famously senile at the end, and his team managed. Biden's team would have managed.
If Americans reduced our media consumption, that would be a good start to reducing the importance of "optics" and intense partisanship.
I think the argument in the piece is pretty clear that binary systems facilitate partisanship. The inability to provide additional options creates an increased requirement to cleave to those on offer
As with all such arguments about how to manage excessive partisanship, I tend to think the solution is to reduce partisanship. Rules aren't going to save us from ourselves.
Joe Biden's senility is a big deal in terms of "optics" but it would probably not have been a big deal in practice. Reagan was famously senile at the end, and his team managed. Biden's team would have managed.
If Americans reduced our media consumption, that would be a good start to reducing the importance of "optics" and intense partisanship.
I think the argument in the piece is pretty clear that binary systems facilitate partisanship. The inability to provide additional options creates an increased requirement to cleave to those on offer