In Defense Of Partisanship

Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is one issue on which almost everyone in our divided country seems to agree its the belief that the intense loyalty within the electorate toward Democrats and Republicans is the source of our democratic illsdivision dysfunction distrust and disinformation. The possibilities that responsible partisanship can offer were at the heart of an important intellectual tradition that flourished in the 1950s and 1960s one which was institutionali