A conversation on Political Parties now with lee trautman, senior fellow at new america, the author of the 2020 breaking the twoparty doom loop. His most recent paper entitled more parties, better parties, the case for pool Party Democracy reform. Why do we have Political Parties in first place and considering the state of politics right now, might it be better to do away with parties at the moment . I understand a lot of people are frustrated with the performance of our two Political Parties. But, basic reality of modern mass represented of democracy is that you cant do it without Political Parties. Political parties are inevitable and essential as institutions of Representative Democracy because something needs to organize politics. Something and if it is not a Political Parties, then, it will just be charismatic autocrats or chaos. Political parties structure elections, they build majorities in the legislature, they engage and mobilize voters, they build coalitions. Political partie
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