To explain:
"I wouldn’t have thought it controversial to observe that our governance and politics are unusually, almost singularly, dysfunctional these days. Which logically means that we were doing it better in the past. Something that both memory and written history confirm–throughout much of American history, and especially in most of the postwar period up until recently, the government managed to function and 'compromise' was not equated with surrender to Satan."
You then followed this with a fifty-year-old political attack on conservatism as some kind of psychological aberration.
Anyone in our age group knows damn well that knock-down, drag-out, take-no-prisoners politics is not a "recent" phenomenon. Hell, look at the 1964 campaign.