Our two-party system has long been an example of intersectionality. Each moiety traditionally played to its constituency, exploiting their beliefs, prejudices, and occasionally their capacity for reason. Each, additionally, might “do some good,” according to its supposed charter, by accident or in homage to accountability. Good, for the conservatives, means “leave us alone” and to the liberals “fix everything of which anyone complains at whatever cost.” Each team vies to increase its market share in the manner encapsulated by a New Yorker cartoon: a board meeting at an advertising firm, a
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