Stay tuned after the show for a message from the American Beverage Association.

Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. A nation that's hungry for healing, searching for answers, tired, fed up, angry, and confused,

is going to get a resounding answer from Washington pretty soon.

We can't fix this.

At some point over the next few days or weeks, the collective eyes of America will shift here

to the nation's capital to see if any political leaders have the faintest clue how to heal a country

knocked off kilter by protests and riots fueled by racial and economic inequality.

Here's what they will find, a Congress that's dodgy at best, slow and indifferent at worst,

a president who's focused on his base and hardly willing to dwell a beat, to acknowledge that many

of his fellow Americans feel targeted by a government that's supposed to protect them.

When he's criticized, as he was by the

governor of Illinois, he goes in the attack and a political system that's uniquely ill-equipped

and ill-suited for quick action, or frankly, action of any kind. Politicians often say the

electorate moves quicker than elected officials, and this era has proven that adage true. How could

one expect that a Congress that cannot settle on something relatively simple?

How to conduct its own business during a pandemic will be able to quickly enact policies

to help reverse decades of feelings of injustice.

Let's pause a second to review.

Some of the other simmering crises Washington has failed to address include

budgets that are out of control, outdated gun laws that both parties agree need to be changed to

some degree, and an immigration system widely seen as broken. Billions of dollars have been spent

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