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Was Abraham Lincoln Leftwing or Rightwing?

The Political Orphanage

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The Politics of the Grocery Store

There was a time when there were two dominant parties but they underserve some particular interest group or ideological niche, he says. Now we kind of get into a period where it's not this essentialist philosophy. It's almost like just grocery baskets,. The Democrats, or the Democrat Republican party has this stuff in their grocery basket and the Wigs have stuff in their groceries basket. And that's what the political spectrum does. That's why we haven't seen the rise of a third party since the political spectrum took hold.

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