Four Party System

Our March 24, 2016 Post - Down the Road muses on the possibility of a 4-party system evolving in the U.S. as a possible path to avoid persistent deterioration of government function. Lo and behold, Bloomberg News and Jeffrey Sachs have similar thoughts: This Campaign Broke the System. Of course, on this blog, we do not see the Trump campaign as an aberration that broke the system, but as a not unlikely outcome of the sliding quality of Republican presidential campaigns over recent decades.