“What we’re seeing today is really the culmination of centuries-long historical trends,” he says the day after the attack, as images of the pro-Trump mob blanketed cable television. They ended it in an outraged clamor to expel two Republicans, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, and likely headed for another impeachment trial. Senate Democrats began the week exultant that twin victories in Georgia would give them control of the chamber under President Joe Biden.
Last week’s violent attack on the Capitol illustrates his point. “This is not a particularly uplifting history,” Adam Jentleson warns at the beginning of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate, his new book about partisan dysfunction in the Senate and how to fix it.
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