American Democracy Isn’t Broken… It Never Worked as Advertised

The guardrails weren’t real — they were simply norms. The Constitution wasn’t a firewall. And the Madisonian dream? Always more myth than reality. So now what? The Federalist Papers , argues our guest, University of Maryland law professor Maxwell Stearns , belongs in the fiction section of the library. And after watching the Trump years dismantle everything we were told would hold, it’s getting…