Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Politics May Not Be Doomed to Dysfunction

Yes, there will be plenty of discord over the next few years. But there’s also reason for optimism.

December 1, 2020 at 12:34 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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My very smart Bloomberg Opinion colleague Francis Wilkinson has an excellent column predicting that whatever President-elect Joe Biden might want, we’re in for a rough ride for the next four years. “U.S. domestic politics is an ugly mess,” he writes, thanks to a Republican Party that’s “post-policy, post-truth, post-democratic.”