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== Motivation ==

The Articles of Unity and the Unity 2020 movement stems out of a concern that the current Democratic and Republican parties in the United States are consumed by extreme partisanship and show a lack of leadership at the highest levels of government. As the most highlighted line in [[Bret Weinstein]]’s white paper on the website Medium about the Articles of Unity states: "The need for leadership has never been greater. Yet, the parties have never offered less."<ref>{{Cite web|last=#Unity2020|title=The Articles of Unity|url=https://medium.com/@ArticlesOfUnity/the-articles-of-unity-f544f930d336|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Medium|language=en|date=June 29, 2020}}</ref><ref name="NRO">{{Cite web|last=NR Interview|title=The Unity 2020 Ticket: An Interview with Bret Weinstein|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/interview-bret-weinstein-unity-2020-ticket-proposal/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|website=National Review|language=en-US|date=July 30, 2020}}</ref> Additionally, Unity 2020 claims that there are a large number of Americans that fall into the “exhausted majority”, which consists of Americans with political opinions between the far left and far right can form the base of support for the Unity 2020 movement for the [[2020 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hawkins|first1=Stephen|url=https://hiddentribes.us|title=Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape|last2=Yudkin|first2=Daniel|last3=Juan-Torres|first3=Míriam|last4=Dixon|first4=Tim|publisher=More in Common|year=2018}}</ref>

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== Articles of Unity and Unity 2020 in the media ==

Since announcing this on ''[[The Joe Rogan Experience]]'', [[Bret Weinstein]] has appeared on many media outlets discussing the idea, such as the ''[[National Review]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|lastname=NR Interview|title=The Unity 2020 Ticket: An Interview with Bret Weinstein|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/interview-bret-weinstein-unity-2020-ticket-proposal/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|website=National Review|language=en-US|date=July 30, 2020}}<"NRO"/ref> ''[[Rising (news show)|Rising]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Rising – The Hill TV- Unity 2020 Plan|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrrDfDGzqs|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-19|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref> ''[[Tucker Carlson Tonight]]'', <ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Bret Weinstein Introduces the Unity 2020 Plan on Tucker Carlson Tonight|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4H-0S89pxU|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=www.youtube.com|date=June 29, 2020}}</ref> the [[Triggernometry (podcast)|Tiggernometry]] podcast,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kisin|first=Konstantin|last2=Foster|first2=Francis|date=|title=Bret Weinstein – We Can Stop a Civil War|url=https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/watch/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Triggernometry|language=en-AU}}</ref> and others. [[Big Think]] and ''[[Reason magazine|Reason]]'' have also published content about the idea.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-02|title=How #Unity2020 plans to end the two-party system, bring back Andrew Yang|url=https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/unity2020|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Big Think|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Weissmueller|first=Zach|date=2020-08-28|title=Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?|url=https://reason.com/video/can-the-republican-party-survive-trump/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Reason.com|language=en-US|publication-date=August 28, 2020}}</ref>{{primary inline|date=September 2020}}

In August, [[Twitter]] banned the Articles of Unity account.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harper|first=Cindy|date=2020-08-31|title=Twitter suspends account of non-partisan group Articles of Unity|url=https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-suspends-articles-of-unity/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-03|website=Reclaim The Net|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=September 13, 2020|title=Rising on The Hill TV – Bret Weinstein: How Twitter Is Censoring A Third Party Effort|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAt8WxkPrE&feature=youtu.be|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=|publisher=|publication-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Homan|first=Timothy R.|date=2020-09-11|title=Grassroots activist describes frustration with Twitter over account suspension|url=https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/516088-grassroots-activist-describes-frustration-with-twitter-over-account-suspension|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-14|website=The Hill|language=en}}</ref>