Interesting take. Framing divided government as a deliberate structural brake on unified power rather than simple gridlock shifts the conversation away from the usual partisan scorekeeping and toward how institutions actually constrain (or fail to constrain) concentrated authority. Whether that framing holds up depends on how you weigh the trade offs between slower decision making and reduced risk of overreach, but it’s a perspective that forces a clearer look at what checks and balances are meant to do in practice.

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