Well, Newsweek is out as news. They should have followed up with factual history about how these parties switched. (Where are the whigs in all this???)
America always being 2 party, in my own hindsight, should have been suspect. The world is not binary.
Not that I had control of when or where I was born.
America has always been two-party (that’s the inevitable game-theory result of how our elections are designed), but it hasn’t always been the same two parties. When the Whigs were a thing, the Republican Party didn’t exist yet.
They also realigned three or four times without changing names.
Well, Newsweek is out as news. They should have followed up with factual history about how these parties switched. (Where are the whigs in all this???)
America always being 2 party, in my own hindsight, should have been suspect. The world is not binary.
Not that I had control of when or where I was born.
America has always been two-party (that’s the inevitable game-theory result of how our elections are designed), but it hasn’t always been the same two parties. When the Whigs were a thing, the Republican Party didn’t exist yet.
They also realigned three or four times without changing names.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States