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A country ruled by a political party that is great at winning elections but terrible at actually governing is heading for one hell of a smash up, sooner or later. The only question is how long it will take and how bad the crash will be -- in the real world if not in the ballot booth.

-- Billmon, in a post on how the Rovians have intertwined politics and governance, with huge success in the first and abysmal failure in the latter. He compares the Rovians with FDR's New Dealers, who also intertwined politics and governance, but were actually able to do the second one.