"The two-party system," George Washington remarked in his farewell address of 1796, “has perpetrated the most horrid enormities and is itself a frightful despotism”. Donald Trump is only the denouement of a divisive, despotic, binary polity: 'binary voting' in elections and binary voting in decision-making.
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