Not having grown up in the United States, I don’t know much about American history. For example, I knew next to nothing about George Washington except that he was the first president. Historian H. W. Brands has written 6 about Washington and has recently talked about it on the Art of Manliness podcast.
I didn’t know that Washington warned against factions in government, and would have been appalled by political partisanship:
What Washington didn’t like when he began to see it was that differences of opinion would give rise to political parties. Originally, they called them factions, and they tough that factions were this blight on the body politic, and that they’d be bad. [They believed that] the country needed to be guided by virtue, where individuals would put the interest of the nation ahead of their own or their own group’s interest. Whereas if you’re a partisan, if you believe in party government, you think you must put ahead the interest of the party, because the party then will serve the national interest. Washington grew very impatient with what he saw as this emerging partisanship.
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