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How to Think About Party Dissolution

Realignment is a more likely outcome than a major party imploding.
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A woman shows off her T-shirt during a rally with former President Donald Trump on September 25, 2023, in Summerville, South Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

When we talk about America's political parties today, there seem to be just two: Democrats and Republicans. This is all the more amazing given widespread dissatisfaction among voters, a majority of whom don't want to see a Trump-Biden rematch in 2024. Yet most analysts still claim that a third-party run is simply impossible and that Americans are destined to be held hostage by the two feuding parties.

Tevi Troy is a senior fellow at the Ronald Reagan Institute, a senior scholar at Yeshiva University’s Straus Center, and a former deputy secretary of HHS and senior White House aide. He is the author of five books on the presidency, including “The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry.”

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