… is from Joseph Epstein’s essay – “Don’t Invite Me to a Party if It’s a Political One” – in the August 16th, 2018, edition of the Wall Street Journal:
As difficult as it is to imagine the country functioning without political parties, equally difficult is to imagine political truth and America’s larger interests lying chiefly with either Republicans or Democrats. To sign on with one or the other is to give away too much in independence of thought, feeling, integrity.