Political parties are designed to undo what the founders did, to bridge the gaps created by the founders as checks and balances. So, for longer than two centuries our society has been at eternal war with itself, always risking totalitarian government (such as we saw under Obama) by strong political parties on the one hand or risking ineffectual government (such as we saw under The Articles Confederation or under the Southern Confederacy) on the other hand.
For some time, I had believed that technology, especially social media, was in the process of so splintering or, if you prefer, democratizing, political discourse that the major parties would be fractured, even splintered. One would assume that would be an obvious course for the contentious, selfish, power mad Democrat party but there is and was another force at play which has checked this development as it might've applied to Democrats.
George Soros. Soros' money and the money of his gang of billionaires has so penetrated the levers of power of the Democrat party that it can squash any maverick. It can also pick winners and designate losers. It did so in 2008 when Soros dumped Hillary for Obama. Money control in the Democrat party funneled through Nancy Pelosi firm.
On the congressional level, Democrat money so controls Democrat media that no Democrat dares depart from the party line because the retribution will be not just swift but merciless. The impulse of Soros' money, of course, has been to drive the party ever to the left as it has become more radical in its self-identification of socialism, it's acceptance of infanticide, it's policy of open borders, transsexualism etc.
None of us believe that this portends anything but bad for the country but for a party seeking power, discipline is an invaluable advantage for overcoming the checks and balances installed by the founders to prevent tyranny.
So no matter how far left the lurches of the Democrat party superficially seemed to be, they are united from top to bottom and they always have their tribal issues of racism, sexism, homophobia etc. with which to divert a compliant media.
Republicans, on the other hand are simply not a disciplined party at this moment. Trump may or may not be able to overcome this disunity and gain reelection but, meanwhile, we suffer at the congressional level. The implications for the Republican Party are ominous and we have seen the baleful effects already.
Apart from putting judges through and a distorted tax cut, Mitch McConnell has subverted the president at every other turn on tariffs for example. Paul Ryan did the same on Obama care, for example. Now we see Amash playing the maverick. If he is not ruthlessly disciplined, fragile party coherence will disintegrate even further. He must be disciplined Pour encourager les autres or the Democrats will prevail until we recover some level of unity.
