A study out overnight from Harvard Business School and its U.S. Competitiveness Project, titled, "Why Competition in the Politics Industry Is Failing America," concludes that

"Our political problems are ... a failure of the nature of the political competition that has been created. This is a systems problem."

... a failure of the nature of the political competition that has been created. Trump didn't change this: Under Trump, "neither the structure of the politics industry nor its incentives have fundamentally changed."

Under Trump, "neither the structure of the politics industry nor its incentives have fundamentally changed." Why it matters: "Politics in America is not a hopeless problem, though it is easy to feel this way ... It is up to us as citizens to recapture our democracy — it will not be self-correcting."

Be smart: Each side's unresolved splits — Bernie v. Hillary, and Trump v. GOP — signal the possibility that the two uber-parties could splinter further, with dozens of Democrats seeking the 2020 nomination, and populist Republicans empowered while the establishment tries to reassert dominance.