Lee Drutman

What’s new is that secretive bill writing may be reaching the limits of its effectiveness.

Political will and political resources are not separate.

When people evaluate their president, they care more about effort than results.

A well-resourced Congress may be the one thing standing in the way of a Trump administration doing whatever the heck it wants. A doubling or even a tripling of congressional staff budgets — especially if it goes to oversight — would be money very, very well spent.

The threat of autocracy replacing liberal democracy seems pretty serious, and very difficult to recover from. I don’t want to take a chance.