Democracy is fragile. It relies on sets of principles and norms upheld by its citizens and elected officials. One such principle is the commitment toward the common good. However, the common good cannot be achieved if factionalism is allowed to rule. As previously mentioned, Trump is not the cause of these factions. Rather, he exacerbated preexisting patterns of division and factionalism. These are threats long foreseen by Founding Fathers James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. The Founding Fathers recognized that most previous forms of democratic governments had been unstable and/or short lived (Rose-Stockwell, 2019). Over the essays that comprise the Federalist Papers, Madison et al. (1988) argued, inevitably, democracy falls victim to factionalism. He further clarifies that a faction can be defined as any group, whether it amounts to a minority or a majority that stands united by a common interest or passion that stands averse to the rights of other citizens, or to the interests of the community. For the former Republican voter, Trump, and by proxy the Republican Party, has rejected the needs of its citizens in favor of its own political agenda. However, it is not only the Republican Party that is guilty of this. For the independent voter, neither Democrat nor Republican are seen to be working toward the common good. In such an environment, the choice presented to them is less of a choice as it is the lesser of two evils.