Thomas E. Mann

“What we have is a political system that is not working because the two parties are not just divided, they're divided asymmetrically.”

“The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

“Dysfunction is rooted in a fundamental mismatch between our political parties, which have become ideologically polarized, and our political institutions, which are not designed for a parliamentary-style party system.”

“Both sides are not equally to blame for the current state of American politics.”

“We have no reason to believe that the mainstream media are systematically biased in a liberal or conservative direction.”

“The central problem of American governance today is the profound and widening gap between the two major political parties.”

“Compromise is not a four-letter word in politics.”