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Blaming the System is like blaming the rules of football for the Arizona Cardinals being the worst team in the NFL.
It’s a lame excuse.
Here’s the thing: the System the founders gave us is pure genius.
Revolutionary in concept and still pretty much alone in the world.
Separation of powers and checks and balances mean no single branch can act unilaterally for long. A bad president is constrained by courts and Congress; a corrupt Congress is checked by elections and judicial review.
Federalism diffuses power geographically, so a failure or capture at the federal level doesn’t automatically corrupt everything in the states.
The amendment process allows the system to correct itself, abolition, women’s suffrage, direct election of senators, without revolution. They meant the process to be slow and thoughtful but possible.
Regular elections and term limits create built-in expiration dates for bad leadership. The system doesn’t need consensus that someone is good; it just needs a mechanism to remove them.
Freedom of the press and speech function as an early-warning system, corruption and incompetence get exposed rather than buried.
Like I said, pure genius.
The 119th Congress is an Institution in Freefall. By every traditional yardstick, the 119th Congress isn’t just underperforming, it’s setting new floors for what a functioning legislature looks like.
Depending on the tracker, this Congress had passed somewhere between 27 and 100 bills well into its term, trailing not just healthy historical Congresses, only narrowly ahead of the notoriously ineffective 118th Congress, the session already crowned the least productive in modern American history.
The 117th Congress, at the same point in its term, had passed nearly 50% more legislation, and did it under unified control, the same governing advantage the 119th enjoys now.
Republicans hold the House, Senate, and White House simultaneously. There is no divided-government excuse available this time. There is no minority obstruction to blame. And they’re still falling behind Congresses that had a much harder hand to play.
Go back to July 2025: the most damning headline of that session wasn’t a failed vote, it was Speaker Mike Johnson calling an early adjournment, declaring there was nothing “time-sensitive” to work on, and sending the House home rather than let the Rules Committee force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
That’s not gridlock.
That’s not the system checking itself.
That’s leadership choosing to leave the building rather than face the vote.
Nothing in the Constitution required that decision, a person made it.
And here’s the thing: even when Congress finally did act, a bipartisan discharge petition forced a 427-1 House vote that November, the Senate passed it by unanimous consent that same night, and it became law within 24 hours, the Justice Department blew right through the law’s own 30-day deadline.
It claimed “full compliance” in January while survivors and lawmakers on both sides said the release was riddled with holes.
A year later, we’re still litigating what “release the files” actually means, with a federal judge just this month ordering DOJ to hand over more documents it tried to keep sealed.
The walkout wasn’t a one-off.
It’s the same institutional instinct, avoid the vote, avoid the deadline, avoid the accountability, playing out on a loop for thirteen months and counting.
Even the legislation that did pass tells an ugly story: rather than legislate individual issues that could be scrutinized and voted on their own merits, this Congress has leaned on mega-bills, massive, thousand-page packages that bundle welfare, tax, immigration, and climate provisions together.
That’s not efficiency.
That’s obscuring accountability, burying unpopular provisions inside must-pass vehicles so no member ever has to cast a clean, defensible vote on the individual pieces.
A Congress with total one-party control, historically low output, and a Speaker who sent everyone home rather than face a scandal isn’t a system working as designed, it’s a body abdicating the basic job description.
If “worst in recent memory” means squandering the most favorable governing conditions a Congress can have and still producing less than a divided, dysfunctional predecessor, the 119th Congress has more than earned the title.
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