Stubborn Facts about the Two-Party System

Podcast: Stubborn Things · AEI Podcasts

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

We’ve always had two parties and we’ve always had people who hate it. Some point to Madison as the reason why our government favors two strong parties over a dozen weaker parties. But Madison and Jefferson’s support of the Republican party was to sound the alarm to voters about bad actors in Congress. In large part, it seems like our parties do just that: shine the light on how the other party is flawed. Why two parties? Some hypothesize that our representational government gives way to two-way arguments in which the coalitions form the two st...