America’s government has not been “weaponised”
But it is being undermined by the wrong kind of congressional oversight
If you set out to crystallise what is self-defeating and immiserating—yet, admittedly, also kind of funny—about American politics and governance, you might come up with something quite like the Congressional Committee for the Spelunking of Rabbit Holes (technically operating under a less precise name, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponisation of the Federal Government).
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Paranoia strikes deep”
United States March 11th 2023
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