this is apropos of the idea of “American stasis”

https://theconversation.com/no-country-still-uses-an-electoral-college-except-the-us-240281

. . . indicative of the thesis that success can lead to stagnation can lead to decline.

A case can be made that the decline of the Roman Empire was due to stasis. Rome was so successful in a certain mode of behavior and culture for so long that it became anathema to suggest any major changes. So it stagnated, didn’t fix problems, and then suffered decline for that reason.

I think the same is applying in our time to the United States:

https://stevenwelzer.medium.com/american-stasis-842dcf1a4584

https://stevenwelzer.medium.com/system-change-and-the-cori-bush-defeat-b5fde0138e89

Fall of the Roman Empire