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Sam Rosenfeld

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What do we mean when we call contemporary American parties hollow? Simply that, for all their activity and for all their seeming dominance over a polarized age, they show a profound incapacity to organize collective effort either internally or in the broader political arena.

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Modern parties are organizationally top-heavy, civically unrooted, swamped by outside paraparty entities, and unloved and underlegitimized by even those most engaged in politics. This hollowness manifests asymmetrically, rendering Democrats ineffectual and Republicans dangerous.

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