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But a huge part of it is just this default institutionalism, this hidebound risk aversion that I think has become a real cultural problem in the Democratic Party.

Some of them were well-intentioned, like Attorney General Merrick Garland—who wanted to restore institutionalism to the Justice Department.

Boston University School of Law professor Jed Shugerman told Salon that particularly in the most recent Supreme Court term, Roberts has veered from institutionalism.

By staking its entire bid for relevance on ideas that are mostly advanced by the sitting president of the United States and his party, and on a belief in institutionalism that is already fervently supported by leading Democrats, the group all but doomed its efforts from the get-go.

The President Joe Biden era has been good for institutionalism generally, because the president himself seems to understand and appreciate the nature of his office more than Obama ever did.