Which is yet another good reason to change our rules of legislation away from domination by a majority party.   There's a lot of interesting reading on that topic to be found.   (things like shared chairmen ship, non partisan congressional staffing, etc...)  

https://mickeyedwards.com/books/    Rising conservative Republican at one time.  An honest book.

We talked before about court advocacy vs two party opposition in legislation.    I don't think the court dynamic works when both parties should be committed to the public they serve and work in a cooperative, negotiated process.

Politics has probably been as self centered and partisan as we see today. but it still stinks.   It's no wonder American voters would  take a 'flyer' to see if an authoritarian leadership style would be better.   

Sadly they picked the demented older son of the King instead of his much brighter younger sibling.  (allegorically that is).  The 'good' king is fine, the 'bad' King  is a nightmare.