Posted on 08/15/2025 10:18:16 AM PDT by MAGA2017
I'm leery of AI but this seems to be pretty spot on.
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I lean towards Jackson starting the Democrat Party, with the old Democrat Republican Party fading away (somewhat rebranding itself into a new party, but not officially) and some of those members becoming the National Republican Party. That didn't go much anywhere, and those folks became the Whigs. Which also didn't last long, and the remaining folks became the Republican Party we know today (including a Whig named Abraham Lincoln).
I have heard that the Tories of the South who never surrendered and chose to stay in the new nation to maintain ownership of their property, land and slaves laid the foundations of the Democratic party.
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Clever.
and it was the Jackson rats the started feeding us that the U.S. is a Representative Democracy rather than a Republic.
“It seems questionable if they start with Jackson, because they Democrats claim it started with Jefferson. I haven’t clicked on it yet but that is a glaring mistake.”
Aaron Burr had his dirty hands in the founding, Tammany Hall and all that. .
You're wrong about Tories of the South becoming the Democrats. My family line, father and son, fought in the Revolution, at the Battles of Guilford Courthouse and Kings Mountain, where the Red Coat Major Patrick Ferguson, leading Tory recruits was shot from his saddle, dragged by his horse and victorious Patriots desecrated his body in the aftermath of the battle. /spit
As for Tories becoming Democrats, that doesn't make sense.
My published family history has excerpts of last will and testaments listing names of some slaves and the progeny who they were passed to. My direct line was not wealthy enough to have mansions, but did participate in the Democrat side in the Civil War.
A Jefferson–Jackson Dinner is a title traditionally given to an annual fundraising celebration held by Democratic Party organizations in the United States.[1] It is named for Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, which the party traditionally calls its founders. They are usually held in February or March at a local level providing an opportunity for elected officials, candidates, party staff, advisors, and donors to attend.https://www.c-span.org/program/campaign-2008/indiana-jefferson-jackson-dinner/189225Due to controversies over Jefferson's slaveholding and Jackson's policy toward Native Americans while in office, some Democratic Party organizations have been removing Jefferson and Jackson from the title of party fundraisers.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%E2%80%93Jackson_Dinner
May 4, 2008
Campaign 2008
You can't make this kind of thing up. A one or two decades ago they were proud to say they were founded by Jefferson and Jackson.
The irony is that the Dims today say that Jefferson is the equivalent of Dr. Evil.
Yep.
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