Yeah. So there's a, actually Wisconsin political scientist who coined this phrase strong partisanship, weak parties. And it is, there's another book called Hollow Parties that talks about how Both parties nationally don't actually exercise that much power. And that book describes the failure mode is different. Republicans, it's extremism. Democrats, it's ineffectuality. And people feel very strongly, and I think for Democrats, appropriately, that they don't want the other party to be in control of the country. (06:33–06:38)
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