I agree with this simple analysis as well, for whatever reason it became accepted to not reach consensus as just a political strategy. It's hard to tell if this

I agree with this simple analysis as well, for whatever reason it became accepted to not reach consensus as just a political strategy. It's hard to tell if this is an expected outcome of the churn and burn design of the US political system's natural drift: popular candidates will stick while unpopular candidates will be replaced by popular ones and eventually the group consensus shifts one way or the other. At a certain point that's totally fine, but recently it just seems to be a consensus shift against reaching consensus which leaves us in this weird flux where there is an obvious majority and we are still frozen stiff. It potentially could just be the outcome of the two-party system needing referendum itself where the coalition democracy designs at least naturally require some level of consensus making from top to bottom.