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Maybe he should've helped design a political system that doesn't inevitably lead to a two party system.
Of all of his failings, I don't think you can really blame that one on him. His time had to balance an alliance of states that had really wanted to be a confederacy with reestablishing (small r) republicanism for the first meaningful time beyond the city-state level in two thousand years.
There's going to be some misses.
Does the small r go on reestablishing or republican 🤔
It's a small r because they didn't want to share freedom with the hard r