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Column: Our two-party system is broken in more ways than one
08292018 TOM BAXTER
Tom Baxter
Something at the heart of American politics is drying up, and like the effects of climate change, it will be a long time before we understand what we’ve lost.For most of our history, analyst Lee Drutman writes in the fall edition of Foreign Policy magazine, the two parties were “sprawling, mixed-up coalitions of state and local groups ... flexible enough to compete in most places with different faces and with enough overlap to make deals in Washington.”