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I think that is the fundamental tension that has become almost insurmountable, and I think helps to explain the extreme gridlock that we've seen in Congress in recent years, and in policy-making more generally.

When the 2017 Tubbs fire swept through Northern California’s wine country, officials in Sonoma and Napa counties decided not to send mass wireless alerts, fearing they would cause countywide gridlock and panic.

In an era of political polarization, Americans are hungry for pragmatic solutions that transcend partisan gridlock.

"We tried gridlock for 60 years. It didn't work," he said.

But it has grown more popular in recent years as presidents lean on executive actions to get around legislative gridlock, experts say.