The End Of Western Civilization

as we know it. I love the context here. And wit.
Krugman:

Instead of re-enacting the decline and fall of Rome, we’re re-enacting the dissolution of 18th-century Poland.

... Rules that used to be workable have become crippling now that one of the nation’s major political parties has descended into nihilism, seeing no harm — in fact, political dividends — in making the nation ungovernable.
How bad is it? It’s so bad that I miss Newt Gingrich.