America now has 3 political parties. And the Republicans and Democrats aren't among them.

Forget the Republicans and Democrats. It's all about plutocratic populists, democratic socialists, and establishmentarian centrists.

Which do you identify with?
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Which of America's three political parties do you support?

I'm not talking about our major institutional parties — the Republicans and the Democrats, or lesser parties like the Libertarians or Greens. I mean the effective parties — the people, coalitions, and issues with which voters actually identify and around which they actually cluster when Election Day rolls around. Today, America has three such parties.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.