Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism is a 2012 book of political analysis by Thomas E. Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, published by Basic Books. The authors state that the current U.S. Congress has reached a state of basic gridlock due to both major American political parties moving to solidly left-wing and right-wing sides, leaving the center, and becoming "vehemently adversarial". They also state that, with the advent of the Tea Party movement and other activist groups calling for ideological purity, that the U.S. Republican Party has particularly moved to a fringe position "unpersuaded by [the] conventional understanding of facts".The Economist published a mostly supportive review. The news-magazine stated that Mann and Ornstein have "devoted a good deal of thought to ways the system can be rescued and improved" to "their great credit", referring to the book's "constructive ideas".. }
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- It's_Even_Worse_Than_It_Looks abstract "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism is a 2012 book of political analysis by Thomas E. Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, published by Basic Books. The authors state that the current U.S. Congress has reached a state of basic gridlock due to both major American political parties moving to solidly left-wing and right-wing sides, leaving the center, and becoming "vehemently adversarial". They also state that, with the advent of the Tea Party movement and other activist groups calling for ideological purity, that the U.S. Republican Party has particularly moved to a fringe position "unpersuaded by [the] conventional understanding of facts".The Economist published a mostly supportive review. The news-magazine stated that Mann and Ornstein have "devoted a good deal of thought to ways the system can be rescued and improved" to "their great credit", referring to the book's "constructive ideas".".