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The Republican and Democratic Parties are heading for collapse

15 mins | Oct 6, 2020
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US political parties have reshuffled every few decades, and 2020 may be the year they do it again. In a year that has already seen impeachment, plague, and fire, and with total warfare battle over filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat and an even higher-stakes and equally uncertain election still to come, it's easy to feel as if US democracy is crumbling before our eyes. But could this all lead to a radical change of the country's politics and economy? Lee Drutman contemplates the chances of it happening in Foreign Policy.

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