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To: Steelfish

One guy - not even Trump - is going to take down a party. The Whigs dissolved because they wouldn’t take a stand on stopping the expansion of slavery. Republicans may dissolve over the issue of immigration.

The new Republican Party had the backing of some of the Big Media of the day (Horace Greeley’s New York Daily Tribune), and the backing of some already popular politicians (western hero John Fremont). Lots of analogies.


18 posted on 03/23/2016 6:04:20 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

You’re right. One person can’t take down a party. But several million of his supporters can.


39 posted on 03/23/2016 6:22:10 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (GOP delenda est)
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