A lot longer than that my fren. For many years it's all been uniparty with the appearance of two - all a show made for public consumption. Ike saw it, and then JFK after him. I don't think there has been two real parties since the Civil War days when members' verbal insults would literally erupt in a beat down on the floor of the the House. I would have paid to see that. It has been a uniparty system ever since the progressive movement entered the American political landscape in the late 19th Century.
A lot longer than that my fren. For many years it's all been uniparty with the appearance of two - all a show made for public consumption. Ike saw it, and then JFK after him. I don't think there has been two real parties since the Civil War days when members' verbal insults would literally erupt in a beat down on the floor of the the House. I would have paid to see that. It has been a uniparty system ever since the progressive movement entered the American political landscape in the late 19th Century.
Violence in Congress Before the Civil War: From Canings and Stabbings to Murder