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The two-party system is here to stay

  • Written by Alexander Cohen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clarkson University
Despite voter dissatisfaction with the Republican and Democratic parties, they are likely to persist.Shutterstock/Victor Moussa

The American two-party system has long been besieged. Many of the founders feared that organizing people along ideological lines would be dangerous to the fledgling nation. Alexander Hamilton called political parties a...

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