A Country of Two Minority Parties

Posted on AllSides December 18th, 2019
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OPINION

One reason our politics are so chaotic is that neither Democrats nor Republicans can seem to govern as a majority party.
Here’s a theory for why our politics are so confusing these days: Neither party wants to be a majority party.

From an ideological perspective, majority parties are, by nature, weird. For instance, the long-dominant FDR coalition included a strange mix of blacks and segregationists, corrupt city machines and the reformers who hated them.

Over the several decades that followed, most major policy questions were hashed out within the...

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