Isabelle Skalski is Ottawa's new city councillor for Osgoode

There are two crises of American democracy. The first, the crisis of the moment, is what you see in the news. It is the story of Donald Trump’s assault on some of the most important institutions and principles of American government. The second crisis gets less attention but matters more in the long run. This crisis has to do with the fundamental design of the American political system: a design that made the Trump presidency possible in the first place and which will continue generating political instability long after he is gone. This second crisis—the crisis of design—is...