There Is No Party Line

Chaos? Conflict? Fine. Politics is supposed to be chaotic — and we shouldn't shy away from that.

Over the past few very long weeks, the Biden campaign and its allies told us that we don’t have a choice — effectively, that the rest of us just needed to suck it up, behave, and toe the (party) line. The alternative, they said, was the absence of consensus and outright chaos. I liked how Edward Luce put it, that those insisting Biden was all we had pre…