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This is the book you’re looking for: https://www.amazon.com/American-Carnage-Front-Republican-President/dp/006289644X

It’s by the lead political writer for politico, it’s on the break up of the GOP and it covers exactly what you’re asking about

Is that what you got out of reading the definition of Sortition on Wikipedia and after exploring the Public Access Democracy website?

I thought you wanted sources.

For another source on the subject I refer you to Oliver Dowlen’s book, The Political Potential of Sortition

I see two sides here.

On the one hand it seems pretty clear that the media has pretty much all adopted the Fox news model and gone beyond that to promoting actively false narratives to make people hate each other as described in Taibbi's Hate Inc.

But on the other hand.

It's possible that the relative centrist media I grew up in in which there were only three tv channels, and newspapers were controlled by nationwide near-monopolies, led to these media sources both having enough funds to care about being 'fair' and worried enough about nationalization to not do anything too obviously raw. But this period of history was relatively brief. What the media enviornment of the US at the time of the founding looked like was a lot like our present era - every small town had its own printing press and a lot of scurrilous lies got published. There were a lot of party-line newspapers, firey independents, left right center and weird, all competing in the marketplace for readers. They believed in a lot of crazy conspiracy theories e.g. Madison was plotting to be King, Jefferson was a paid French agent, etc. So to an extent maybe what we're living in now is normal and the relative age of harmony of centrism is the outlier.

>over double the number you cited for incel murder

46 deaths vs 752,639+. HMMM GREAT ARGUMENT YOU GOT THERE. Also, it depends on who you consider "incels". Very few have been motivated solely by inceldom.

>I'm sure six minutes of research on the other two topics would provide a similar result of made-up statistics.

I got some bad news for you, partner. Source 1 and source 2 (at least 800,000 according to this link).

Not much in the way of books written by staffers, as far as I am aware. Though I would recommend The American Senate for a good book on the Senate as an institution. Alternatively, here's a list of books written by current Senators, though not all are about Congress.

Hello. If you would like to learn more about markets, I would recommend this book. It's a bit outdated, but written by a smart guy. https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Bazaar-Natural-History-Markets/dp/0393323714/

As far companies getting money, and then spending that money on legislatures to get more money, then the term you are looking for is "legislative capture".

As an example, Google-- which you might think is the biggest dog in the IT sector-- wanted to roll out a cheap high-speed internet service a few years ago. They were unable to. The reason is that AT&T-- an older dog with more tricks-- had engaged in legislative capture. Meaning, they had established so much bureaucracy around simple things like getting access to local utility poles, that it will be impossible for any new service to enter the market.

These are probably good starts for shifting parties.

https://www.amazon.com/White-Flight-Atlanta-Conservatism-Politics/dp/0691133867

https://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/074324303X