During their 2019 campaign for seats on the Philadelphia City Council, candidates from the Working Families Party campaigned, in part, under the slogan: "We can end the Republican Party in Philadelphia." (The Philadelphia City Council -- as a result of a provision in the City's Home Rule Charter that guarantees at least two seats for a minority party -- has maintained a Republican minority for decades, with the idea being that a degree of ideological diversity in city policy-making was a goal worth promoting.) Although the Working Families Party's web page detailing this objective has since been taken down (perhaps cooler heads have temporarily prevailed), it echoes a number of similar calls by political groups -- both conservative and left-leaning -- throughout the United States that wish, it seems, to be able to eliminate, to scrub from the body politic, one side of the political aisle entirely.
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