Garrett Graff: You can explain America's constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence

[bluestateboomer]

25. I think one of our problems is we were first.

Our founders had the challenge of establishing a modern government that was unique for its era. No one could reasonably foresee every human flaw which might challenge a governmental system. Our constitution has served moderately well for over two centuries. But the current helplessness we feel against the banality of facsist evil we face just highlights our system's flaws. Foreign observers of our country probably had the time to avoid our mistakes when designing their democracies.
That said, now that we are fully aware of the systemic loopholes bad actors misuse to destroy even the good aspects of our self governance, when we recover, if we recover, we must be ready to build back better.