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The Age of Incoherent Partisanship

One American political party has collapsed; the other is holding together a fragile prodemocracy coalition.
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The GOP has collapsed as a party, but voters in general don’t seem to care about what parties once represented.

First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:


Irrational Tribalism

On Tuesday, Representative Elise Stefanik called for an end to the GOP primary season—in after one caucus in which some 56,000 Iowa Republicans chose Donald Trump. “I am calling on every other candidate - all of whom have no chance to win - to drop out,” she said , “so we can unify and immediately rally behind President Trump so that we can focus 100% of our resources on defeating Joe Biden to Save America.”

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