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When the 2017 Tubbs fire swept through Northern California’s wine country, officials in Sonoma and Napa counties decided not to send mass wireless alerts, fearing they would cause countywide gridlock and panic.

In an era of political polarization, Americans are hungry for pragmatic solutions that transcend partisan gridlock.

"We tried gridlock for 60 years. It didn't work," he said.

But it has grown more popular in recent years as presidents lean on executive actions to get around legislative gridlock, experts say.

Schumer and his colleagues in the Senate, in particular, are misreading the moment and what it calls for, Levin argued, saying they should seek not to achieve bipartisan solutions but total gridlock in Washington.