Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. As such he is no left-wing firebrand. Indeed, the AEI is one of the hallmark institutions of contemporary American conservatism.
In April of this year he joined with Thomas E. Mann who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Together they penned an editorial for the Washington Post titled, “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem”.
The article was drawn from their book, “It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism”.
In the book they summarized their views as follows:
