I believe  that any serious student of history or current events should come to the same conclusion of George Washington that party politics are an abomination.    From his Farewell Address:  “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” 

His only blind spot is that he failed to predict that by 2016 there would also be "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled "  women involved as well.