Wake up to the reality of devolved governance

In “The Winds of War”, the best-selling war novel by Herman Wouk first published in 1971, there is a passage way inside which no student or teacher of political theory can possibly miss.

That passage reads thus: “In an odd way, the two leaders diminished each other. Roosevelt stood a full head taller, but was pathetically braced on leg frames, holding onto his son’s arm.