> In FPTP, this often ends up backfiring. Every possible alignment of circumstances “backfires” in FPTP because FPTP is a fundamentally bad way to elect a legi

> In FPTP, this often ends up backfiring. Every possible alignment of circumstances “backfires” in FPTP because FPTP is a fundamentally bad way to elect a legislature. That’s not a problem of, e.g., salient political issues becoming partisan—representing a coherent position on salient issues is the only useful thing parties can do—it is a problem of FPTP.