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Why Can't You Support the Other Party?

Party ID is real and it is not spectacular.

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Jonathan V. Last
July 6, 2022∙ Paid
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On the Secret show, Sarah and I often bicker about what she calls my “West Wing fantasy politics.”

I’ll say something like, “Why doesn’t Mitt Romney just run for reelection as an Independent?”

Or, “Why can’t the Democrats just vote for this pro-democracy Republican?”

In general, my West Wing

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