Americans Have a Love/Hate Relationship With Their Political Parties

Most of us think of parties and partisanship as the same thing, but that’s all wrong

Jennifer Victor
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4 min readApr 18, 2019

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Political parties have arrived at an odd and precarious place in American politics. As Republicans and Democrats lob insults at one another over everything from border security to the well-being of immigrant

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Jennifer Victor
GEN
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Associate professor political science, Schar School Policy and Government, George Mason Univ.; Congress, parties, campaign finance, networks. Blogger @MisofFact