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The two-party system nobody asked for / Robert Lockwood Mills.

Bob Mills analyzes the Democratic Party and the Republican Party over the course of time. He finds both of them seriously flawed, and raises deep questions about the two-party system overall.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Mills, Robert Lockwood (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Algora Publishing, [2019]
Subjects:
Democratic Party (U.S.) > History.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) > History.
Political parties > United States > History.
Two-party systems > United States > History.
Political culture > United States.
United States > Politics and government.
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Political culture.
Political parties.
Politics and government.
Two-party systems.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • George Washington was prescient
  • A two-party system that nobody asked for
  • A new two-party system (that nobody asked for)
  • The fabulous fifties and dysfunctional sixties
  • Of party bosses and primary elections
  • The Donald and the Andrew
  • Media (plural noun) vs. media (singular noun)
  • Rules of the (political) game
  • Attacking the two-party trust
  • Failed third parties in history
  • All politics is local, and other myths
  • A court ruling worse than Citizens United?
  • Voter fraud, electoral fraud, and fraudulent people
  • How television, blogs, and social media affect politics
  • Bucking the two-party system
  • The endorsement game
  • Of Senate rules and Supreme Court nominations
  • Wall Street and the two-party system
  • The two-party system and the First Amendment
  • God, the media, and the two-party system
  • Of dinos and rinos
  • The two-party system and big-time sports
  • The two-party system and the Supreme Court
  • The two-party system and the 25th Amendment
  • Partisanship and deep pockets
  • The war on Christmas and other political wars
  • The two-party system and mother nature
  • The two-party system and gender wars
  • Partisanship vs. non-partisanship
  • The two-party system makes strange bedfellows
  • Nobody is allowed to be an independent
  • 'Judge not, lest you be judged non-partisan'
  • The two-party system is bad for one's health
  • The man who upset the two-party duopoly
  • Party-switchers don't hurt the duopoly
  • The mid-terms settle nothing
  • Those inscrutable Florida voters
  • Gerrymandering and the courts
  • The new political landscape
  • Possible third-party candidacies in 2020
  • The elephant(s) in the room
  • Another potential elephant
  • A radical idea from a radical centrist
  • Until it happens
  • Epilogue.

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