factional

We’ve become more polarized as a county, and as a result, the parties have become more ideologically uniform, making the factional politics that drive primary challengers less likely.

Changes to the party system were probably part of the reason that Bush’s fate looked different from that of Hayes, whose factional rivals in his own party ensured he kept his one-term promise in 1880.

In it, the native New Yorker plays a factional version of herself.

By Tuesday it was evident the factional balance of power had shifted.