Buchanan saw firsthand that the idea that the Republicans were a strong bulwark against progressivism was usually just that: an idea. The data suggested that the opposite was true. In fact, Republican politicians were far more effective at putting over progressivism than the Democrats because there was no one to their right to criticize them for do

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Earlier this year, Ryan Williamson, a resident fellow at the R Street Institute, a free market and limited government think tank, published a report evaluating how Alaska's electoral system performed in 2022. Despite Palin's and Mathias's scaremongering, Williamson's report found that "races in the state became more civil and competitive overall," ... See more