The Death of the Modern Political Party
By Paul Matzko
Martin Van Buren could have warned us that Donald Trump is what you get when a modern political party stops functioning like one.
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Trump, the Accidental President
By Paul Matzko
Donald Trump is a symptom and not the cause of the decline of the Republican Party.
Bernie Sanders, the Accidental Nominee
By Paul Matzko
Sanders' frontrunner status is a symptom of the devolution of the Democratic Party. Collective action problems could produce Sanders 2020 just like they did Trump 2016.