Opinion by David Von Drehle: Why voters so often steer government toward gridlock
Kelly and Kobach go together like a Christmas cardigan and a bag of broken glass. I can see why people might prefer one or the other, but I’m surprised to see both in the same shopping cart. Surprised and baffled.Compelled to say more, I suggest stripping away from the political picture all the storms and thunder of the recent past to look at a 30-year stretch of American voting.
This must be what the voters intend. Too often for coincidence, they produce unclear results, weeks of recounts, high-stakes runoff elections. The Pundits Club must admit: These aren’t obstructions of our view into the will of the voters. They are the will itself. The gridlock is the message.Through the magical mechanism of mass voting, Americans express a persistent impulse toward divided government.
If this is true, the Kansas anomaly makes perfect sense. The ballot that elected both Kelly and Kobach — polar opposites — was cast by the electorate’s invisible hand, which seeks balance, always balance.Voters in Election 2022 asserted another kind of balance, too. Not just balance of parties and passions — but a proper balance between the attention we give to politics and the attention we save for everything else.
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