http://www.ginandtacos.com/2013/09/25/ass-bitten/
Ed notes that throughout our Republic, parties have used various incentives to keep their fellow Congresscritters in line. But post-Citizens United, a lot of those levers of power are gone.
I ask my students what is the one reason political parties exist, and very few come to the answer I hope they will: To win elections. Everything else follows off of that. The reason a party embraces an ideological position is simply to win elections, to clarify the choice for the electorate.
But if members of Congress are legitimately more beholden to/threatened by some Koch Brothers-funded whack-a-loon primarying them, then what does the GOP even mean as a party right now?
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