[Sherman Logan]

The dichotomy I’m talking about is one of Democratic = liberal/progressive and Republican = conservative.

Until recently both parties had liberal and conservative wings.

[muawiyah]

until recently ~ like today for example ~ both major parties had a variety of coalition partners. The policy goals of each coalition member are always at variance with the interests of the others in some way.

For the first time in about 1.5 centuries the top end pro-US Bank crowd are over in the Democrat party ~ I can hear Jackson rolling over in his grave.

TR's progressives gravitated early into the Democrat shell corporation ~ the business crash in the immediate post WWI period lost them the popular vote though ~ so you end up with a short string of Republican Presidents, another downturn, then 16 long years of leftist tyranny led by the same old progressives who'd blown it under Wilson.