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Americans’ Discomfort: Nonpolitical Offices Have Rushed to Become Left-Wing Partisans

Americans’ Discomfort: Nonpolitical Offices Have Rushed to Become Left-Wing Partisans
Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about oversight of the Department of Justice in Washington on Oct. 27, 2021. Tasos Katopodis/Pool/Getty Images
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Writing for RealClearPolitics, professor Andrew E. Busch of Claremont McKenna College finds: “One reason for Americans’ increasing political discomfort—the feeling that politics has become a blood sport in which traditional protections and safety nets are no longer present—is that the nonpartisan insulation protecting the rule of law and consent of the governed has frayed.
James Bowman
James Bowman
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James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The author of “Honor: A History,” he is a movie critic for The American Spectator and the media critic for The New Criterion.
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