Can a Federal Government split between a Democratic President and a Republican Congress work?
Probably not, given its poor record and today’s party polarization. From the 1950s to the ’80s, to be sure, Democratic Congresses and Republican Presidents worked well together. Moderate conservative Republican Chief Executives like Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon actually preferred Democratic Congresses, with a strong Southern conservative faction, to outright Republican Congresses that they distrusted as too right-wing. It’s the pairing of a G.O.P. Congress with a Democrat in the White House that has been a failure historically. Even now, far from representing political strength, this matching represents two unusual weaknesses: on one side, a G.O.P. Congress, untrusted except as a roadblock to Clinton; and on the other, a Democratic President and his wife under heavy scrutiny for half a dozen alleged ethical or financial transgressions. Such ingrown animosities all but guarantee that this split government will not be just another flash in the pan like the 54th Congress, which fac
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