Rank Possibilities

I’m still digesting Lee Drutman’s comment below from election night over at FiveThirtyEight. I'm wondering how his suggestion for more political parties as a remedy for hyper-partisanship would work with ranked-choice voting. I tend to prefer the notion of having no political parties. But I acknowledge that doesn’t seem like a realistic expectation at the moment. Having more parties—instead of factions within the parties—also seems somewhat like a pipe dream. But perhaps it would be more palateable if there were a way to funnel votes from one preferred canditate to secondary selection.