The Iowa Democratic Party had one job — here's why it failed to do it nypost.com/2020/02/07/the… via @nypost
“One of the reasons our politics have become so dysfunctional is that the political parties have, over the last 40 years, systematically dismantled themselves, or to be more fair, cooperated with the politicians, activists and journalists who sought to dismantle them.”
“Subscribing to a misplaced fetishization of democracy in all things, they completely outsourced the responsibility of choosing their candidates to the parties’ most passionate voters — something virtually no other advanced democracy has done.”
“All in the name of reform, they acquiesced to rules and laws that took power away from the parties and put it in the hands of outside groups, donors, the media and, again, primary voters.”
