Big Mistake - David Brooks (NY Times)

Here is an exerpt of Brook's piece today:

"Ryan’s fantasy happens to be the No.1 political fantasy in America today, which has inebriated both parties. It is the fantasy that the other party will not exist. It is the fantasy that you are about to win a 1932-style victory that will render your opponents powerless.

"Every single speech in this election campaign is based on this fantasy. There hasn’t been a speech this year that grapples with the real world – that we live in a highly polarized, evenly divided nation and the next president is going to have to try to pass laws in that context. …

"The real world … [is] where you get a diverse group of people who try to make progress in the areas where that is possible and try to sidestep the areas where it is not."

Read the entire column here.