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This is an interesting question. "Is it time for the US to have a government of national unity and a de jure one-party state like China? Yes, it will be terrible if your political opponents control the one-party state but all you have to do it then to make sure you control it and direct your politics towards that."
A little convoluted at the end there but there already is a government: it's called the deep state. Whether it is the Democrats or the Republicans or in the UK the Tories or New Labour is elected, foreign policy is almost entirely the same even in domestic policy. It's fractions of percentages on this program or the other and largely distraction with identity politics that comprises the left and the rest of the political system. Trump is this aberration that managed to slip through his own party one of the two parties - because the hubris of his opponents - and you see the entirety of the political establishment right, left, Fourth Estate media, deep state bureaucracy. They're all working to to either contain or bring Trump down for good and bad right everything because not everything in Trump does is good, not everything he does is is bad, but what he's doing is outside the rules of accepted behavior.
The withdrawal from Syria is a case in point because going back to the question here, a government of national unity, it is this Exceptionalist foreign policy that is the glue that keeps this consensus together threatening to end two wars, you see the distinction between the elites the outrage across the media, think tanks, academia, Congress and everything. Meanwhile take a look at the reaction of normal people during the week that after all of this happened as the outrage of Trump daring to try to end two wars. his approval rating instead of going down actually went up slightly because that's one of the reasons why people voted for him!
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