Our political system is dominated by two major political parties with serious identity crises.
J.D. Tuccille writes:
The state of the Republicans is particularly parlous,” The Economist noted last year, before our country’s political fissures further deepened and widened, “But the contradictions among Democrats, though less obvious, also run deep.”
How much deeper and wider those fissures now run was demonstrated last week with Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-Ariz.) announcement that he won’t seek reelection. It was the latest evidence that American electoral politics are fracturing in ways that offer less and less to people who reject tribal contests and think live-and-let-live is an attractive philosophy. Actually, it’s a big problem for anybody who just wants clear choices.
With his poll numbers tanking after his outspoken attacks on President Trump’s protectionism, saber-rattling, and xenophobia, the junior senator from Arizona publically conceded that “a traditional conservative who believes in limited government and free markets, who is devoted to free trade, and who is pro-immigration, has a narrower and narrower path to nomination in the Republican party.” It was time for him to try his luck at something else.
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