Dividing the Country

The distance between the parties is growing. The anger is real—and palpable. The danger in the short term is that the public throws up its hands and tunes out the process. The danger in the long term is that a President gets away with subverting the system.

• David Rohde is an executive editor of newyorker.com. He is the author of “In Deep: The F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the Truth about America’s ‘Deep State’,” forthcoming in March, 2020.  From The New Yorker