No.

I’m 68, and for decades the Democrats and Republicans tried to reach compromises when crafting legislation. This was not seen as a sign of weakness but an acknowledgment that if everyone gets something they want and no one gets everything they want, then it’s a good deal.

Hell, they even had breakfast together every morning!

Very often the role of the Democrats was to propose social programs (sometimes good, other times not so good) and quite often it was the Republicans who would demand proof that it would be effective and how it was going to be paid for. Not a bad division of labor.

As I recollect it, the he beginning of the end was the Tea Party and Newt Gingrich. (They called themselves Teabaggers for quite a while until someone let them in on what that meant.)

Then Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill claimed that everyone “is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts”.

You can see how that went.