Steve Kroes, president, The Utah Foundation. I think it’s the new normal… for a little while. Maybe through the next election cycle, maybe the one after that. I have a friend who believes the end of democracy is coming. I am nowhere near that level of apocalyptic thinking, but I am disturbed by the rising sense of doom that has been seducing America for a decade or more. Whether it’s the national debt, changing social norms, climate change, or the rise of powerful corporations and wealthy individuals, it seems there are plenty of dooms both conservatives and liberals can latch on to. I would like to see more pragmatic collaboration and less adherence to simplistic, partisan ideas that score political points but will never work.
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