Basically my take on worries about shifting/“collapse” of the American democratic order…

Like, some powers and responsibilities are being evacuated from some elements and agents of the government and broader social structure to others; this is a normal and expected progression in any institutional system. This will leave dynamics of power and government that are different than those I have grown accustomed to or been chatechized in.

But the very irregularity between and within those two categories, mixing quite distinct threads from the founding, Reconstruction, (sotto voce, the WWI war state and 1920s reactionary reconsolidation), New Deal and WWII, Cold War and Civil Rights Era, and post-USSR neoliberalism is testament to the fact this is a recurring process that need not be taken as a rupture of government or social continuity