Jay Cost is right to say that America needs stronger political parties. He is wrong to suggest that our existing parties should have done more to block outsiders like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Our problem is not that our parties are too open. Our problem is that both of our major parties are too narrow, too clubby, too narcissistic, and too extreme.
Cost writes, “Only the parties can possibly hope to rope in a broad swath of factions in society, channel their diverse interests into clear policy choices, then hold elected officials to account.”
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