SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Some Thoughts on Professor Garrett Epps’ “Trumpism Is the Symptom of a Gravely Ill Constitution.” “The funny thing is … I don’t disagree with Professor Epps’ core thesis, which I restate here in my own words, as: something is wrong in the United States, and some of what is wrong relates to our Constitution. That said: some of Professor Epps’ specific claims strike me as, at the very least, odd. How much worse than odd, if at all, I leave to you, the reasonable reader.”

I’ll just add that it’s not only the United States that’s having these problems. It has a lot to do with the extreme dysfunction of our post-Cold War leadership.

Related: A Republic, If You Can Keep It. Our political class bypasses democracy whenever it can. Why would you expect voters to remain enthusiastic about it? Once you’ve established a banana republic, we’re down to arguing about what kind of bananas.