America’s Political Crisis Isn’t an Accident. It’s the Result of Fifty Years of Civic Neglect.
The concentration of executive authority you are watching right now did not happen because anyone broke the law. It happened because special interest groups spent fifty years building the infrastructure to make it happen while the civic side spent fifty years losing the infrastructure that once kept them in check. This column explains how that imbalance developed, what Project 2025 represents as a special interest operation, and what rebuilding the civic counterweight actually requires.