Yes! Probably one of the biggest challenges for us in this country is that any argument appears to argue that electoral democracy can't work will seem silly, because by many metrics it did work for a long time. Those metrics would include important things like trust in the judiciary and the independence of our research organizations. That trust requires some shielding from electoral politics, though. Now that we're watching the shields shatter, a lot of us would like to believe that we can just rewind a bit and go back to how things were, but I'm pretty skeptical that that approach will suffice. Why not build a better shield?
Yes! Probably one of the biggest challenges for us in this country is that any argument appears to argue that electoral democracy can't work will seem silly, because by many metrics it did work for a long time. Those metrics would include important things like trust in the judiciary and the independence of our research organizations. That trust requires some shielding from electoral politics, though. Now that we're watching the shields shatter, a lot of us would like to believe that we can just rewind a bit and go back to how things were, but I'm pretty skeptical that that approach will suffice. Why not build a better shield?