Pynchon's vision----related to history, I think.

[Mark Kohut]

In Jill Lepore's THESE TRUTHS, she writes about all of the
political parties struggling for dominance, even just a foothold,  in the
United States
after The Constitution has happened. (This means decades, not
just a few years). This was happening in the early 1800s when
the new US press was sweeping across the new nation faster
than its population could (obviously; although 35% growth census to census
happened).

She avers that the press articles were so binary about these developments,
so either-or
as they structured articles as One Party sez-- Other Party disagrees,--like
the McLaughlin Show, I insert, if we remember that and also like much media
in our time-- the middle excluded ala that famous Pynchon trope-- that this
was a key historical reason that
the US of A did not develop a parliamentary system. ...I'd never heard that
before.

Although this is surely projective, based on too much Pynchon fanboy, I
sometimes
see THESE TRUTHS as in the Pynchonian tradition in this way: Ms Lepore sees
the country's original, new-to-history ideals, counterpointed against the
betrayal of those ideals.
Both together, interlaced, no either-or---- to continue that insight.