this may or may not be true, but again: it's the job of *conservatives* to sort that out. it's the job of the left to win elections. fetishizing balance is bad

Exactly. Whatever it is, it's not my problem.

the word 'conservative' is also carryng a lot of weight here. what does that mean? does it just mean opposition? does it mean pro-small-governance? does it mean racism? cmon.

Agreed, constantly harping on "leftists" isn't going to result in a strong conservative party given the fact that 100% of leftists are left-wingers. What do they expect us to do?

We have one, it's called the Democrats

fuck do you mean "may or may not be true" it's pretty self-evidently true for any political system that lead to two major parties

another thing Political Science™ used to talk about is this or that party spending some time In the Wilderness™

gotta stop babying them with malapportionment and make em try to appeal to a majority of voters

People keep acting like they need to nurse a dying part of a two party system all while forgetting that many political parties existed in the past to replace one end of the two party versus another. The GOP is long overdue.

The fetishization of alleged "balance" is literally just the fallacy of appeal to compromise. These "political scientists" apparently failed 6th-grade logic, and don't seem anxious to make-up that, or any, actual work.