America's government was not plotted with political parties in mind.
In the eyes of Franklin and Washington, political parties were invitations for mob rule, and knowing that brutality from the majority is the ugliest democracy, placed rules and laws intended to protect the minority.
Sadly, we didn't even make two decades before federalists and democrats started to draw lines in the sand. There are no checks or balances for political ideology. Indeed, if party ideology consumes all branches of government, then checks and balances become far weaker than our founders intended.
We saw it from the right for six years and from the left for two. But going back to one-party, I would say that in America we have a one-party mindset.
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