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Whose job is it to address the challenges the United States faces right now? Can any one person — like the president — fix it? 

These questions come up as the country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, a touch-and-go economy, and protests and calls for change following the police killing of George Floyd and  several other Black Americans. 

America has faced an onslaught of challenges before, but it’s weighing on us. For example, 

80 percent of participants in a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey

 told pollsters that things are “out of control.”

MPR News host Kerri Miller talked with a political scientist and a historian about how change happens and whether any one person or group can fix the situation we’re in.

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Eighty percent of respondents in a recent NBC and Wall Street Journal poll think the country is out of control. We explore what that means, whose job it is to fix it, and what history and modern politics show us about addressing change.

Can anyone fix what ails the United States?

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