尽管面临着美国几十年所未见的高度政治两极分化局面 （以及美国多地发自肺腑的对首位非洲裔总统的敌意 ） ， 但美国人及其政客明白，破坏规则意味着破坏宪法粘合国体的作用。
Even in the face of deeper political polarization than the US has seen in many decades (and, in many places, a visceral hatred of the country’s first African-American president), Americans and their politicians understand that breaking the rules means dissolving the constitutional glue that holds the polity together.