The primary election system is coming under harsh criticism stemming from many short comings. From Ballot Access News:
Jonathan Rauch, a scholar and author who writes frequently for The Atlantic, has this article that says the U.S. might be better off if it had not instituted government-administered primaries. His article covers other topics also, including internal congressional procedures, and campaign finance.
No other country has government-administered primaries and laws that force parties to use primaries. Thanks to the Center for Competitive Politics for the link.
According to the article:
Political professionals and parties have many shortcomings to answer for—including, primarily on the Republican side, their self-mutilating embrace of anti-establishment rhetoric—but relentlessly bashing them is no solution. You haven’t heard anyone say this, but it’s time someone did: Our most pressing political problem today is that the country abandoned the establishment, not the other way around.
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