This week, The Ezra Klein Show examined how politics has come to saturate nearly every aspect of American life, and what that transformation means for our ability to solve actual problems. Across conversations on hyperpolitics and on Francis Fukuyama's analysis of Trump and China, a common thread emerged: the question of whether our political system can still function as a mechanism for collective decision-making, or whether it has become something closer to a zero-sum identity conflict.
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