Political predictions are notoriously unreliable, but here is one I am willing to stand behind: the elected officials who figure out how to govern across difference will dominate the next decade of American politics. With dysfunction and paralysis having become the status quo in Washington, elected officials who work together to get things done will turn heads, offering desperate voters a much-needed alternative to a broken system.
Consider what happened in Alaska last year. The state’s lawmaking structure does not encourage political independence. Alaska has the nation’s highest veto-override threshold: three-quarters. So when a popular education bill promising smaller class sizes, a
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