i don’t think that’s true at all. tommy tuberville is not who most alabamians would choose as their representative, even if under the current party system they do prefer red to blue. 1/

our current party system is an artifact of our electoral system, and even within that system the derangement of the people and structures that emerge is an artifact of primaries and binaries (demonizing the other guy is safer than and just as effective as taking any positive policy risk). /fin