Jiang's answer to the legitimacy crisis is that the public is effectively stuck rather than offered a realistic institutional way out.
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Gridlock
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "right well i mean like i'm sorry but like you're kind of stuck"
Key Notes
Jiang points to severe political polarization and resulting gridlock as a current sign of domestic breakdown in the United States.
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"right well i mean like i'm sorry but like you're kind of stuck"
"...domestic politics, you have tremendous political polarization. And this polarization creates gridlock. So, you know, today in America, we have a lot of political..."
"yeah we're definitely in a state of gridlock um which which can be good or can be terrible depending on the situation uh it..."
"...done in this country because they kind of hide behind the gridlock, the left -right divide. They're like, well, I mean, we just can't..."
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