Third Parties in America ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Third Parties in America ~ The Imaginative Conservative

How did our traditional antipathy to third parties start in America, and what role have third parties played in our electoral history? Introduction Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently said that the Democratic party in America “is in a civil war.” The rise of the Democratic Socialist wing of the Democratic party and the consequent splintering of that party between moderates and leftists suggests the possibility of the emergence of one …