Amy Walter

Fundamentally, I think we have to change our framework.

So instead, like, if you go back and you read American history, we've been slogging through for a long time.

It's never been great.

It's never been perfect.

It's always been messy.

And it has been corrupted and all these different.

Thanks.

And we keep slogging our way through.

So I think slogging is just the reality of America.

But one thing I think that has been really hard for, especially people who are living in this moment, is that we experienced from basically the end of World War II through the end of the 20th century, a level of bipartisanship.

And comity, C-O-M-I-T-Y, in our politics, that was rare.

And we think that is normal.

And so we keep saying, why can't it be like it was in 1979 or whatever, 1983, when, you know, Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan were friends.

It's like, well, because...

That was the aberration.

Sort of more of the norm.

And so we have to, I think, just appreciate that with every subsequent generation.

Yes, it feels like...

You know, maybe we aren't governing particularly well, but we're trying to make it better.

Yeah, yeah.