Sometimes it is a drag being correct

[Dill]

(06-06-2019, 11:49 AM)hollodero Wrote: Ah, well... one of them said "There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."

"Party,"  in 1780, was a much looser, amorphous organization than today.  Most serious politicking only occurred in the month before an election, when people decided whom to back. There weren't national chairs raising money and strategizing how to spend it in state races for the good of the party. Elections were almost wholly issue/principle oriented.

The framers did expect people to be loyal to regions and economic interests. Two great opposed parties could foul up the checks and balances created by fragmented interests balanced in the proposed dual system (federal and state) and three-branch government.

Even if they could never visualize someone as vulgar, unprincipled and incompetent as Trump being elected, they nevertheless could likely imagine a large unified party preventing its president, however unfit, from being impeached in circumstances which placed party interest above the national.