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One-Party Domination (for a While, Not Forever) Is Good for Democracy
The Daily Beast ^ | September 26, 2023 | Matt Lewis

Posted on 09/26/2023 2:48:28 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Talk about being too close for comfort. The 2024 presidential race is all tied up, according to the latest NBC News poll. This survey (unlike some polls), is no outlier. The race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has been effectively tied for months. Looks like we’re in for another nail-biter.

On one hand, this stalemate makes perfect sense. As Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter reminds us, Trump won the 2016 Electoral College by about 79,000 votes in three states, Biden won in 2020 by less than 45,000 in three states, and Republicans won the House by a very narrow margin in 2022. “This is going to be a close race,” Walter concludes.

But after everything that has happened since 2016 (Jan. 6, two impeachments, four indictments, and—more recently—Trump saying that Gen. Mark Milley deserves execution and that NBC News should be investigated for treason), you might have expected a seismic political shift in favor of Democrats. Instead, despite all the craziness, the result has been a race that is effectively a draw.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1partyrule; democracy; onepartyrule; politics; totalitarian; totalitarianism
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The problem, as it pertains to our evenly divided nation, is the lack of what political commentator Samuel Lubell called a Sun Party (the party that is clearly in charge) and a Moon Party (the party that takes a subordinate role). Under normal conditions, one party naturally assumes a leadership role for a while, while the other assumes a subordinate role.

I wonder which party Matt thinks should be the "Sun" party?
1 posted on 09/26/2023 2:48:28 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Only if that one party is conservatives and only if they maintain power long enough to set things up to prevent liberals from taking over.


2 posted on 09/26/2023 2:53:04 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

And useful idiots will believe this.


3 posted on 09/26/2023 2:54:01 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

It worked well for Germany. For about 13 years or so.


4 posted on 09/26/2023 2:54:20 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Author is an idiot. He actually believes Biden won.


5 posted on 09/26/2023 2:54:45 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Sundowner Party

(Sundowner and dementia )


6 posted on 09/26/2023 2:55:42 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

We’ve had one party domination for 90 years.


7 posted on 09/26/2023 2:59:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The “Black Sun Party”?


8 posted on 09/26/2023 3:00:40 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Essentially he’s arguing for a one party system, with a fake opposition party that doesn’t offer any real opposition. Which is about what we had in this country until Trump showed up and flipped the board.


9 posted on 09/26/2023 3:04:51 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ClearCase_guy

And for the USSR and Mao’s China.


10 posted on 09/26/2023 3:04:58 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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To: nickcarraway
In the early years of our country for a few decades we had one party rule: the Democrat-Republican party. That ended with Andrew Jackson breaking away from it and forming the Democrat Party, with part of their marketing being that it was better to not have one-party rule.

That's the same Democrat Party that today is trying to cement one-party rule.

11 posted on 09/26/2023 3:06:58 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

With all this talk about the sun party and the moon party, I think what he really wants is the Liberal Party to be in charge. He wants for conservatives to not obstruct the liberal political agenda.

He is not intellectually honest.

If we had a conservative president and conservative Congress as his so-called sun party, he would want the Liberal Party to be obstructing the conservative agenda


12 posted on 09/26/2023 3:08:06 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Don't worry Dems. Your criminal party is already printing millions of fake ballots.
13 posted on 09/26/2023 3:14:49 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

let me tie you up

just for a little bit

i promise


14 posted on 09/26/2023 3:27:25 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Then the military steps in and the party’s over. 😆


15 posted on 09/26/2023 3:31:08 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Yeah,like that’s worked really great in California.


16 posted on 09/26/2023 3:36:01 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media.anan he )
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To: joma89

The trashy cliche “democracy” means if the majority thinks drag queen shows in early elementary schools, sex change hypodermics administered to children by a school nurse, bans on gas powered cars, bans on car ownership, and calling Bible passages on social media “hate speech” are all just fine, then the people who do NOT agree will have NO rights.

That’s why we have a constitutional republic instead of a mob ruled democracy.


17 posted on 09/26/2023 3:37:39 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Me thinks Matt Lewis is not paying attention.


18 posted on 09/26/2023 4:13:02 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I love the way the Fake News so casually lies.

Trump said no such thing. He did list Malley list of treasonous actions and remarked that in times past such action by a serving office would of resulted in execution for treason


19 posted on 09/26/2023 4:22:55 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Biden Regime delenda est)
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