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Junior Chimp
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« on: June 19, 2020, 02:58:45 PM » |
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No, because the moment you have more than two parties, inevitably coalition caucuses form, which then become new parties, bringing you back to two.
You could argue that in the Third Party System, there were really four parties: Solid South Democrats, New York Machine Democrats, Eastern Business Republicans, and Midwest Progressive Republicans. And yet you still had two cohesive, opposing coalitions.
If we had a Parliamentary system, there could be room for more than two parties, but while that works well in places like Germany, in Israel it has resulted in a party that gets 28% of the vote controlling the country's entire destiny. I could easily see a Trump rump of Republicans controlling everything by dividing and splintering everyone who opposed them. A 35% plurality would be forever in the driver's seat.
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