So I'm reading ""The Fifties" by the great David Halberstam

And this quote blew me away. One party has long been the source of our nightmares.

From a letter written by Joseph Alsop to Isaiah Berlin about the 1952 election:

“I find myself constantly blackmailed by the virtual certainty that we shall have a first-class fascist party in the United States if the Republicans don’t win. The real need for a change in this country arises, not from the decay of the Democrats, but from the need to give the Republicans the sobering experience of responsibility.”