ERIC SCHEIE: “If Jimmy Carter is any indication of what’s going on with the Democrats, and Dinesh D’Souza is any indication of what’s going on with the Republicans, not only is the war on terrorism lost, I’d say so are the two parties.”

We’ve had a highly dysfunctional political class for decades, something that’s been mostly masked by how well the rest of the country has been doing. But such dysfunction isn’t costless.