He did, but Madison came to see them as necessary. “Let faction check faction, ambition check ambition,” he wrote.
The problem is today neither “faction” checks the other. They are both the same “faction.”
Which is why we need a truly new, and different, “faction”-—to ensure Madison’s goal of checking the others.
I sometimes think that the people who run for office should be chosen the same way that juries are chosen for jury duty. If it is good enough to vote on murder cases, it should be good for the rest.
Pick 16 people to run for president, eliminate maybe 4 based on mental health issues, etc, then give equal public funding to the remaining 12 running. No contributions.