Opinion | Lee Drutman: Justin Amash is wrong: We don't need to get rid of political parties, we need more of them. - NBCNewsTHINK
announcing his parting with not only the GOP but also the very concept of party affiliation.
Without parties to put forward programs, limit political choices to a manageable number and engage voters, modern democracy fractures into incoherence. Thus, the answer to the two-party doom loop is not to get rid of partisanship. What we need instead is more partisanship. That is, we need more parties. The binary nature of partisanship in our system echoes every other social conflict we have and rolls them into one sweeping, deafening, zero-sum contest for the soul of the nation, making our political system unworkable.
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