Cenk Uygur is currently popular information if you are a democratic junkie. The Young Turks, a well-known virtual media outlet, and host/creator of it is hosted by Uygur. He recently was a guest speaker at” AmericaFest“, the annual meeting of Charlie Kirk’s right-wing political nonprofit, Turning Point USA.
Uygur received a standing ovation from the almost entirely Democratic AmericaFest audience. Uygur’s look resulted in invective from both sides of the social hall, with some right-wing pundits accusing MAGA of becoming a “left-wing action” and a certain semi-coherent left-wing past broadcaster tagging Uygur, a seeming traitor to leftism, as a “gullible”” crank”.
I think the kind of détente exemplified by Uygur’s look on the Turning Point USA period is good for America and may point the way forward given our country’s social failings. Despite his bona fides as a follower of all things communist, and despite the fact that his awakening appeared to have only occurred after the events of Nov. 5, 2024.
America’s two major political parties have been at odds with one another since at least the “hanging chad” national poll of 2000, with violent political speech occasionally leading to assault like the George Floyd unrest of the summertime of 2020, the Antifa abuse on the White House that same year, and the intrusion into the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The truth is that a nation that is constantly on the verge of real political violence is a recipe for civil conflict and Rwandan-style parties, not least of which I blame the Democrats and their ongoing slurs against Republicans as “racists” and” Nazis” for.
In my opinion, whatever that neutralizes the smoldering flames of political violence is great, and Charlie Kirk’s determination to have him at AmericaFest is one such example. However, I think this event even serves as a reminder of how American citizens can work together to solve the so-called “uniparty” issue.
The Framework
Let me begin by saying that I detest the word “uniparty” and think it conveys an unfounded state of affairs. In fact, we have two very separate and distinct major political parties in the United States, with each group having diverse and evidently distinct plan preferences on important matters such as pregnancy, gun rights, health care, taxation, wealth redistribution, Israel, Ukraine, war, and the role of government in our lives.
However, the leaders of these two distinct political parties are governed by a set of unconstitutional and informal rules that govern their behavior. It is that framework that connects and covers both parties like an electrified fence line, which I believe voters actually mean when they refer to as the “uniparty,” and I’ll refer to that phenomenon in this article as the “framework.”
What is the framework? It is everything that benefits and empowers the D.C. Beltway‘s residents in any way that the Constitution and the Founding Fathers never intended. The framework is the endless revolving door between elected office, a post-congressional job in industry, being a lobbyist, and being a media “pundit”. The framework is the fabricated influence of exorbitant” speaking fees” and significant book advancements for ghost-written autobiographies that almost immediately end up on the$ 1.99 discount rack. The idea is that congressional staffers have more authority than the ostensibly elected officials they represent.
The framework also includes the military-industrial complex, which promotes pointless, never-ending wars that devastate and kill our brave service members without regard for the country’s interests, as well as the generals and admirals who eagerly make money with their own defense contractors after serving in active duty. The framework is where industries write the regulations. It’s Congress delegating its sacred, constitutional lawmaking authority to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats inside the executive branch.
The framework is geriatric congressional leadership that never faces a real primary election challenge. The framework is donors, not voters, picking candidates and ineffective campaign finance laws. The framework is that senators assume that they are unaccountable royalty. Like a charismatic pig from an Orwell novel, it feeds both people in a trough. The political system’s framework is everything regular voters in both parties blatantly detest.
So if hatred of the framework is a shared, bipartisan emotion, why is it so hard to defeat? If the rank-and-file voters of both parties eagerly want to solve this problem, why is the problem so intractable? The slanderous rhetoric I mentioned earlier is a big reason. When the leaders of both parties assume that the opposing side is the evil incarnate, banding together to resolve any issue becomes impossible. How is it possible to join a person you consider to be a Nazi in real life? How can you join with someone who libels you as a misogynist, racist, fascist homophobe?
Working Together to stop the world’s hunger
You cannot. Cenk Uygur and Turning Point USA’s conciliatory overtures are crucial because of this. If we are ever going to solve the framework, we need this kind of philosophical rapprochement, even though many commentators believe that Uygur is an infiltrator and that Turning Point USA is foolish for letting the enemy inside the walls. Turning Point USA won’t start using tampons in its men’s restrooms, and Uber won’t change into MAGA. However, if both sides can see past the hate, maybe they can work together to dissolve the framework and restore populist, mostly noncorrupt constitutional governance. But how can we collaborate materially?
The solution does not involve creating a third party. Because the purely ideological concerns of both groups are too wildly distinct, MAGA and Bernie Bros will never be able to unite behind a candidate. In the non-parliamentary U.S. system, third parties give Bill Clinton the advantage of receiving only 43 percent of the popular vote thanks to Ross Perot, with Slick Willie later claiming to have a mandate that the majority of voters opposed. A third party is not only not the answer, it is a practical impossibility.
The answer instead lies in cross-party coordination without ever compromising either party’s core policy preferences. Imagine two nations with distinct economic and political ideologies and long histories of inter-racial conflict. Imagine further that these two countries both suddenly face a cross-border, deadly viral pandemic. Even the most distant of national adversaries will have the good sense to coordinate a strategy to halt the pandemic in such circumstances. That’s what we need as rank-and-file voters of both parties.  ,
Instead of a third party, what we need is a powerful, populist, bipartisan, well-funded political action committee whose sole objective is to educate voters in both parties about the flaws of the framework and support anti-framework candidates and practices inside each party without ever trying to ( or even making any hint at trying to ) change either party’s core values, beliefs, or policy preferences. We must work together in a limited way to eradicate the virus that is the framework, without ever losing sight of the fact that a functioning two-party system with legitimately distinct beliefs and values is good for America as long as it is governed by the Constitution and free of the corruption it causes.  ,
Democrats will have to work harder than Republicans will. MAGA has already overtaken the traditional GOP, with outsiders seizing control against the wishes of much of the framework — and despite the continued existence of many congressional, media, voter, and donor” RINOs”. On the other hand, the Democrats have arguably not, or have not, allowed their electorates to choose their own presidential candidate since Obama in 2008, or even longer. Democrats need a movement that respects the fundamental principles that Democratic voters value while also challenging corruption and political entropy, which make those voters ‘ wishes largely unattainable.
I am aware that the order I just described sounds intimidating and perhaps impossible.
However, watch Charlie Kirk and Cenk Uygur’s full conversation. It’s on YouTube. It is 25 minutes of truly revolutionary rhetoric. Both of them say what I’m saying in this article exactly. They both want to defeat the framework. They both want to defeat the “uniparty”. That first purple flower that pokes through the last of spring’s snows is Kirk and Yugur. Embrace it. Don’t fight it. Without embracing the policy preferences of Cenk Uygur and his rank-and-file Democrat brethren, we on the right can defeat the framework. It can work.
Republicans, Cenk Uygur is not a Trojan horse. Democrats, MAGA is not evil, and Charlie Kirk is not really your enemy. Populism is prevalent on both sides of the aisle. Let’s all work together to end the framework, tamp down the flaming rhetoric of partisan hatred, and do it all without ever once compromising our core values. We can get rid of the blatant corruption that has taken control of our political system. It is possible.
