The Normalcy Paradox: Why Americans Crave Political Stability but Get Chaos

A paradigm-shifting look at how we got to our current moment of political chaos, from the highly regarded analyst credited with predicting the forces that gave rise to Donald Trump.

It is a familiar lament among US citizens: why can't our politics-and our politicians-go back to normal?

For most of our history, the episodes of major transformation in our country-from the left or the right-have come in short bursts, and were followed almost immediately by a backlash. Time and again, the center...