Farmer-Labor Politics in the Midwest

Why is there no labor-based radical political party in the United States? There are two main problems. First, organized labor has always been too weak and too self-involved to be the basis of a new party, which could only succeed as a coalition effort of progressive groups—a real Rainbow. The second problem is that labor parties, indeed, all insurgent third parties (excepting the Republicans), have failed in the past, primarily because of winner-take-all elections that institutionalized the...