Editing Mark Twain (section)

====Political parties====
Twain was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] for most of his life. However, in [[1884 United States presidential election|1884]], Twain publicly broke with his party and joined the [[Mugwumps]] to support the Democratic nominee, [[Grover Cleveland]], over the Republican nominee, [[James G. Blaine]], whom he considered a corrupt politician.<ref name=":1">{{Citation |last=Leonard |first=James S. |title=Politics |date=2020 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mark-twain-in-context/politics/BF35295E23B6F72A15FFCE2ED74B50CB |work=Mark Twain in Context |pages=151–160 |editor-last=Bird |editor-first=John |series=Literature in Context |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-47260-9 |access-date=July 7, 2022}}</ref> Twain spoke at rallies in favor of Cleveland. In the early 20th century, Twain began decrying both Democrats and Republicans as "insane" and proposed, in his 1907 book ''[[Christian Science (book)|Christian Science]]'', that while each party recognized the other's insanity, only the Mugwumps (that is, those who eschewed party loyalties in favor of voting for "the best man") could perceive the overall madness linking the two.<ref name=":1" />