Some countries have “natural parties of government” so dominant that they’re expected to win most elections. The United States, by contrast, has one major party that generally venerates government and elevates it over other sectors of society, and another more prone to (often situational) skepticism of the coercive state and of those who spend their lives doing its work. Even as the Democratic and Republican parties morph into new and illiberal forms, their attitudes toward government have real differences.