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Rep. Justin Amash: The Two-Party System Needs to Die

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Of course the two party system has to die, but they control the money and the media. Besides everyone likes a label or else people wouldn’t stop listening once they see the dreaded “D” or “R” next to the person name – PB/TK

Rep. Justin Amash: The Two-Party System Needs to Die – By Matt Welch and Mark McDaniel / July 28 2017

“Hopefully, over time, [the] two parties start to fall apart,” says Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan) in an interview with Reason recorded last week at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas. “I can go straight to Twitter or Facebook or elsewhere and tell people exactly what I stand for.”

First elected in 2010, the libertarian congressman helped co-found the influential House Freedom Caucus, sponsored bills to cut spending and defang the National Security Agency, and took an active role in the successful effort to depose John Boehner as house majority leader.

A critic of executive power and champion of constitutionalism, the Grand Rapids native is a thorn in the side of Donald Trump, serving as one of only two GOP co-sponsors of a bill calling for an independent, investigative commission into the president’s Russia-related behavior. He frequently calls out the administration on social media, and is on the receiving end of a White House call to get primaried.

Continue to reason.com article: http://reason.com/reasontv/2017/07/28/amash-libertarian-sessions-trump

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