Parties are not democracies. And for them to function and avoid being taken over by maniacs, they sometimes need to be undemocratic, writes mattklewis
The more I thought about it, the more something else occurred to me. While it sounds almost sacrilegious for a political party to essentially rig the nomination,We may live in a representative democracy, but political parties arePolitical parties are private clubs. As such, the party decides . Whether this vetting was done in a smoke-filled back room, or some less carcinogenic location, we were better off when strong political parties served this vital gatekeeping function.
Sure, this heavy-handed move would have created a huge populist backlash against the Republican establishment. Trump might even have run a third party campaign that doomed…, probably Ted Cruz. Still, it’s hard to believe things would have turned out any worse for the Republican Party in the long run.
Second, liberal Americans generally consume their media from mainstream media outlets. Although liberally biased, these outlets are still wedded to old-fashioned journalistic ethics and institutions. For example, MSNBC is under the NBC umbrella, which, no doubt, provides a moderating influence . Conversely, conservatives created alternative media outlets. Unmoored from tradition and institutions, these alternative outlets became alternative realities.
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