My wife, who reads presidential biographies for relaxation, would point out that partisanship and finger pointing have been the norm for the last 225 years at least.
For what it’s worth, Colorado used to limit its legislative sessions (I believe it was 6 weeks maximum) on the theory that the public good was in jeopardy as long as the legislature was in session. But then, they also restricted banks from having more than one branch office, and that office could be no more than a couple of hundred yards from the main bank. I suspect that if you asked the citizens today, they’d overwhelmingly vote to go back to those restrictions.
