By Ken Newton, News-Press NOW, March 8, 2020
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Dr. Edwin Taylor, chair of the Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology at Missouri Western State University, said the primary system works as a party function of selecting nominees, but the eventual governance, laced with partisanship, has been corroded.
“That’s the thing that worries me about gerrymandering and the toxic nature of our politics and the parties at war with one another, that we can have no compromise,” he said. “If a Democrat works with a Republican, you’re a blood traitor.”
He added, “That’s not how the system was designed to work. James Madison would be freaking out.”
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