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New Rules of the Game
Rules are not glamorous. They are not necessarily fun to consider or create, and they can be even less fun to enforce—just ask a Little League umpire. But as we have explained, rules are ground zero in politics. They are universally and unequivocally the only way to change the game. Rules determine not only how a game is played, but also who the players are and what outcomes the game can—and cannot—deliver. Add a three-point line in the NBA, and watch as dominant dunkers are unsympathetically supplanted by eagle-eyed shooters in a fast-paced, high-scoring game.
Change the rules, change the game. That is the rule.
The game of politics is not exempt. The rules around American elections and lawmaking—the machinery we dissected ...
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