Yeah I feel like George Washington's parting letter[0] on avoiding large political parties because they lead to infighting, popularity-only contests, and foreig

Yeah I feel like George Washington's parting letter[0] on avoiding large political parties because they lead to infighting, popularity-only contests, and foreign manipulation was completely ignored. > Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common > & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it. > It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with > ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot & insurrection. > It opens the door to foreign influence & corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. [0] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0440-0002 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-...