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Going To The Other Side

By The Daily Dish
Oct 29 2008, 12:31 PM ET

Matt Steinglass compares dissent in America to dissent in East Asia:

One problem for the GOP might be that while in a one-party system like Vietnam or China the experience of being purged leads to a period of ideological reflection, in a two-party system like the US many of those purged will do what Webb did: defect to the opposition, depriving the Party of an opportunity for rethinking its ideas.



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