Robert Gehrke: If we want to fix American politics, blow up the two-party system
President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Chang W. Lee/The New York)
| Jan. 24, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
President Joe Biden set the tone for his new administration last week seeking to reunite a divided country.
It was a noble, aspirational inauguration speech and a message this divided country needed to hear. But it won’t be easy, not in a political environment where for years Americans have been pushed into clans and fed resentment and mistrust.
This assumes the Republican Party can be salvaged. It may be too late for that, and there’s another guy who shares that view: Recently unemployed Florida man Donald Trump.
United Utah Party announces new leadership
Richard Davis, the Chair of the United Utah Party since its creation in 2017, is stepping down as party chair at the end of the year. He will be succeeded by
Hillary Stirling, who is currently serving as United Utah Party Vice Chair. The new United Utah Party Vice Chair will be Jim Bennett, who is currently serving as the party’s communications director.
I have watched and participated in the emergence of this new party in Utah,” Davis said. Over the past 43 months, this party has gone from a news conference attended by a couple dozen people to a party that is winning the votes of tens of thousands of Utahns across the state. This year, the party s 19 House candidates averaged 14 percent of the vote, which is not typical for a third party. Under this new leadership, the UUP will go to greater heights.”