The November 22 New York Times has this column by David Brooks, which, at the very end, suggests that the emergence of a new strong political party in the United States would be beneficial. The main point of the column is that neither the Republican Party, nor the Democratic Party, enjoys the confidence of a majority of the electorate. The column points out that throughout almost of the 20th century, either the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party, did enjoy support from a majority of the voters, and that party would be the governing party, or, in his analogy, the “sun party”.