Rep. Jamie Raskin Speaks at Brookings on the Future of American Democracy
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The Problem of Partisanship in the United States
The framers understated or underestimated extent to which partisanship would come to dominate our political thinking. The word party comes from the french word parte, apart. Each party is just a part of the whole. And we can fight like cats and dogs between parties when we're in election, and that's good. But once we're in we have to try to think about the whole, and not just the part that helped us most get elected.
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