The primary solution rescuing our democracy from the fringes
"In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. This book shows how to fix them. Congress has become an unproductive and unaccountable mess. Polls show that only 20 percent of Americans think it's doing a good...
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New York, N.Y. :
Simon & Schuster,
2024.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Origins of the primary problem
- The invention of partisan primaries
- The weaponization of partisan primaries
- Part II: A lose-lose-lose system
- Bad for voters
- Bad for the country
- Bad for the parties
- Part III: The better alternative
- The primary solution
- Alaska's proof of concept
- A better way to pick a president
- Part IV: The path toward nationwide reform
- Winning: one state at a time
- Overcoming objections to primary reform
- Conclusion.
