Have you ever heard people talk about a “uniparty” in DC? At first glance, it sounds slightly ridiculous and a little conspiratorial, doesn’t it? How could anyone believe that Democrats and Republicans who openly trash each other at every opportunity and go all out to beat each other during every election are really secretly cooperating with each other? Are John Thune and Chuck Schumer conspiring behind closed doors on how to keep the American people from getting what they want? Is Mitch McConnell secretly making out with AOC in the Capitol Hill broom closet? (Wait, that’s going too far. Don’t even picture it in your mind.)
Is there really a uniparty?
There is.
The “but” is, it isn’t what you think.
So, what is it?
Well, have you ever heard the phrase, “correlation does not equal causation?” A classic example is the number of murders and ice cream sales in a city rising at the same time. Is that because the ice cream companies are in it together with the murderers? No. It’s because there’s…
