LOL. Completely backwards. The Jefferson/Jackson party was always the most popular party. The Whigs had to continually result to gimmicks and subterfuge to get elected since their position were mostly unpopular. What exactly is "conservative" about inflationism and corporate welfare?
Thaddeus Stevens held the same position on money that many of today's neo-Confederates do.
Sigh... the inevitable Lincoln idolator.
Thaddeus Stevens was not a Whig. He was the leader of the anti-Mason party, and a complete loon.
I didn't say the Federalists/Whigs were "more popular." I said they were "conservative." And they were. The Jeffersonian/Jacksonian political tradition has always been America's radical tradition, and this was recognized at the time.
You are aware that George Washington was a Federalist . . . are you not?
Sigh... the inevitable Lincoln idolator.
I didn't even mention Lincoln. You neo-Confederates really have Lincoln stuck up your butts, don't you? May I suggest that if you hate the first Republican president so much that you don't belong in the Republican party?
Thaddeus Stevens was not a Whig. He was the leader of the anti-Mason party, and a complete loon.
The Anti-Masons were born out of America's first "red scare." The Masonic lodges were believed to be infiltrated by the Bavarian Illuminati and the forces that caused the French Revolution (to which your beloved infidel Thomas Jefferson was so sympathetic). The Anti-Masonic party itself began later (after the murder of William Morgan in 1826) but it began in the anti-Illuminati furor of the late eighteenth century. And again, it was the Federalists who stood for true conservatism against this threat.
Later the Anti-Masons went through an "ideological drift" from Right to Left and they morphed into a sort of anti-aristocratic, anti-clerical party (the Masons being the aristocracy, and the Masons the "state clergy," of the United States), but they started out as the Senator McCarthys of their day.
My point about Stephens was simply that, like so many neo-Confederates, he was against "the money power" and wanted the government, rather than banks, to coin and print US currency. Of course you'll never hear about this from race-obsessed neo-Confederates who don't even hold their ancestors positions on tariffs vs. free trade.
I suggest you learn a little American political history.