George Washington’s beliefs can be summarized in one sentence. He believed that political parties would cause division in the states. Unfortunately, he was correct as the idea of Democrats v. Republicans divides the states today. If following Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had listened to Washington, the idea of political parties may have never existed.
George Washington believed that Political parties could create factions in a government.
George Washington was not fully accepting of the concept of political parties. According to him, it was normal for people to want to have groups or belong to groups.
But in a government a particular political party could be recognized as an enemy and that government may want to repress them or take revenge on them. And that political parties could cause disunity.
He warned against sectionalism and factionalism as dangers to the new democratic republic.
