Prof. Lindsey (Lindsay) Cormack

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Serial Killers & Murderous Minds · Introducing: Government That Doesn’t Suck · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

It's like, yes, we trust if multiple people are thinking about it, we'll get to a better outcome.

But we also should fear the people in that we are going to be held to account if we do something that the people don't like.

And I think having both of those is important.

Yep, yep, yep.

No, there's no need to apologize.

Something else that I like about and I love teaching about the distinction between the House and the Senate is they didn't just invent these.

They looked to their closest historical relatives and said, hey, over in England, we've got a House of Commons and a House of Lords.

We certainly don't want to have a House of Lords, which is no family nobility.

You get into it because of who you are, not because someone elected you.

But we do want to have these sorts of polls, which is like that dance to the tune turnover every other year.

You're a public servant through and through.

Right.

that the founders take and say, we're going to like change this.

We're going to make it a little bit better and suit our needs.

And I think that's sort of like the work of self-governance is figuring out what you can learn from the past and say like, how can I change this and make it suit my needs a little bit better?

Yeah, maybe, maybe, which is interesting given the like lowborn status of his own background.

But the idea that he'd be an imperialist or a monarchist or a, yeah.

Which sounds a lot like how people talk about this today.

Where every election is the only one that matters and the other side is going to like ruin the country or drive us into death or take what we want and throw it all away.

So I don't know if everyone knows this, but you do have a new book where you kind of go through a lot of times in which partisanship got to much worse places than we are today.

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