Stuck in the Middle With You: The Constitution Between Regimes

I have uploaded my latest essay, Stuck in the Middle With You: The Constitution Between Regimes, to SSRN. Here is the abstract:This essay uses the theories developed in my my 2020 book, The Cycles of Constitutional Time, to explain the current moment in American democracy (the fall of 2026).The United States is living through a constitutional interregnum: the Reagan regime has exhausted itself, but no successor has yet emerged. The country is experiencing “regime suspension,” in which the two major parties possess different but incomplete resources for political reconstruction. Republicans have a powerful movement infrastructure but no demonstrated durable national majority. Democrats remain electorally competitive but are still primarily a coalition of interest groups and lack a comparably coherent social movement capable of organizing a new constitutional regime.The situation is made worse by severe polarization and constitutional rot—the process by which a republic becomes less…