Is this not exactly what is going on right now? WHY YES! It most certainly IS!

"By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."--James Madison, Federalist 10 (1787).
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/james-madison-federalist-10-1788