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Our Founders’ Mistake
The Opinion contributing author E.J. Dionne thinks America’s founders made a mistake. On this round-table dialog for “The Opinions,” he tells David French and Michelle Cottle why the Structure doesn’t match at present’s Congress.
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I believe the largest mistake the founders made — they usually realized it fairly rapidly, as a result of they’re those who began the primary occasion system — they wrote a Structure as if political events didn’t exist as a result of in precept they didn’t consider in them. And they also thought the branches of presidency can be so jealous of their very own rights, would have a type of institutional patriotism, a phrase my buddy Norm Ornstein likes to make use of, that that institutional battle can be sufficient for one department to verify the opposite. On this circumstance, there isn’t any institutional patriotism happening in Congress in any respect. It’s a celebration spirit that, for the second, appears ready to assist President Trump on every part. And it’s clearly — and possibly David will disagree with me on this — however I believe that’s clearly infecting america Supreme Court docket as effectively.
October 11, 2025
