Political Parties: Inevitable and Ugly, But Not Entirely Useless

George Washington, America’s first president, devoted part of his 1796 farewell address to warning against “[t]he alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension.” He feared perpetual war for power between political parties both as “a frightful despotism” in and of itself, and as prelude to … Continue reading Political Parties: Inevitable and Ugly, But Not Entirely Useless → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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