The dysfunction of the Congress is the core problem confronting the American system of government today.

Heading into what could be the most contentious and argued-over election in U.S. history, there’s a crucial lesson the country needs to learn to come out on the other side — and it comes from all the way back in 1884.

Joe Biden will say anything that scrolls across his teleprompter. How else to explain his reckless charge that Donald Trump is not only responsible for every American life lost to COVID-19 but that “the president failed to do his job on purpose.”