Eyes on the Prize
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Eyes on the Prize
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In a healthy democracy, political parties are supposed to be instruments — means by which citizens pursue what they believe is the common good. But what happens when the party becomes the goal itself?
In this episode of The Rational Nationalist, Lee Ellis examines the relationship between national identity, partisan loyalty, and the shared “we” that democratic government requires. Parties can be useful tools for organizing disagreement, but when loyalty to the team overtakes loyalty to the broader polity, political competition becomes increasingly zero-sum.
The discussion explores polarization, tribalism, hardliners, constitutional limits, executive power, and the conditions under which democratic disagreement can remain productive rather than destructive.