VIEWPOINT: Frank Bruni: No Way to Elect a President
With Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s victories in New York, we’re one furious contest closer to the end of this spectacle. But we’ve known for a while now where we’re headed, and it isn’t anyplace good. American voters are displeased with the presidential candidates they’ve been given. They’re disengaged from the process that winnows the field. And that process disregards the political center, erodes common ground and leaves us with a government that can’t build the necessary consensus for, let alone implement, sensible action in regard to taxes, to infrastructure, to immigration, to guns, to just about anything. Make America great again? We need to start by making it functional.