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Podcast: Beyond Politics
Episode: Are Republicans About to Melt Down...Again? And What About the Rest of Us?
Description: On the surface, the day's big headline was about Republican dysfunction. Underneath, it really revealed something that's been going wrong with all of American politics for a long time. One polling number, and one long-forgotten episode of a television science fiction series, help illustrate the problem.