[Tublecane]

“Because third parties never get off the ground... Reagan understood that the best path for the enactment and preservation of conservatism is through the Republican Party”

The Republican Party was once an outsider party, fighting for a place at the table after the Whigs fell apart.

We’ve almost always been a two party system, but not the same two parties. Sometimes the parties change without changing their names; sometimes they fall apart altogether. Don’t know if it’s time for the Republicans to change, fall apart, or stay the same. But you never know when it’s time for an implosion.

[Terpfen]

The Republican Party was once an outsider party, fighting for a place at the table after the Whigs fell apart.

The Republican Party was the ghost of the Whig Party and gained a toehold in power only because of the sheer force of anti-slavery sentiment outside of the South. There is no political issue today that generates that kind of passion.

The best hope a third party in America can have is to generate enough interest in an issue that it causes one of the two major parties to alter its platform. And even that is pretty rare.

The Republican Party is the best vehicle by which conservatism can advance.