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.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/10/going-to-the-other-side/209427/
