Open Primaries Would Keep Government Open

The root cause of the nation’s longest government shutdown – and the next one, and the one after that – isn’t ideological extremism or hyper-partisanship on their own. It’s the incentives created by the outsized influence of party primary elections.
The good news is that there is an easy and effective solution to America’s primary problem: open, all-candidate primaries.
Shutdowns are no longer rare or risky. Both dominant parties take the U.S. government hostage on an increasingly regular basis because lawmakers fear losing a low-turnout primary more than they fear harming millions of…
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