Political parties go generally unappreciated, even among those inclined to celebrate representative democracy. The Founding Fathers famously didn’t like them, yet found themselves forming them, not long after the first Congress assembled.
This suggests something I have come to believe while writing essays on our two long-lived American parties: The quality of electoral democracy depends heavily on the performance, the steadiness, and the adaptability of admittedly self-interested political parties.
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