
The Polarisation Episode
The Last Best Hope?
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American Politics Turned Tribal From George Washington to Donald Trump
James Morone: Some party members would rather have their party in power than the republic surviving as a republic. The founding fathers disagreed on many things but one thing they almost all agreed on was that there was a fragility at the heart of this new revolutionary experiment, he says. "In that context, faction, disagreement, partisanship seems even more dangerous"
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