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Podcast: The Bunker β News without the nonsense
Episode: Bunker USA: Red, white and screwed β Was American politics doomed from the start?
Description: American politics is in chaos β but in many respects the US was born that way. Throughout the late 1700s the federalist party constantly fought with the anti-federalists over their opposing desires for the future. But is partisan politics really a problem? Or is it a necessity for a democratic system to function? Seth Thevoz is joined by bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands β whose new book: Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics explores exactly that.
βPartisanship seems to be inevitable in a democratic system of compet...