Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171103:06:36:00
The importance here is the parties have had a moderating influence historically on politics. and with the parties in crisis, there's nobody to rein people in from the extreemgs. >> no, there isn't. if you want to look at the sort of long arc, the number of independence versus people who have stroj party affiliation. independent has been going up and up and up overtime the parties have become weaker. structures in washington through what's the party's channeled power have become weaker. and, you know, just as the tea party sort of came in and fractured the republican party, you look at all the ...