You’ve heard it before: “The two-party system sucks.” “Both parties are corrupt.” “They’re all the same.”

There are plenty of reasons to be frustrated with American politics. Let’s be honest about what’s usually happening when that line comes from the right: it’s often a Republican trying to avoid admitting what their party has become.

One party is imperfect, frustrating, and often too cautious. The other has spent years defending chaos, cruelty, corruption, conspiracy theories, attacks on democracy, and a political movement built around one man’s ego.

Those are not the same thing.

In this episode we break down the “both parties suck” argument, why it sounds reasonable on the surface, and why it so often functions as a way to dodge accountability for the Republican Party’s collapse.