Posted on 01/14/2022 2:56:34 AM PST by Kaslin
In November, Republican Glenn Youngkin prevailed in a tough race for the Virginia governorship and led the party in sweeping the state. The result has galvanized Republicans, convincing them, justifiably, that the victory augurs well for their bid to win Congress back in 2022. In that same vein, Democrats fear Youngkin’s victory means Trumpism remains potent despite Trump's defeat. The Democratic Party is right to be nervous -- history is unkind to political coalitions forged in opposition to a single individual.
In the early 1800s, America was led by an elite comprised of the nation’s banking and merchant class, and favored using the federal government to nurture the country's economy. Those opposing encompassed small farmers, frontiersmen, and slaveholders.
The clash between these interests came to a head in the 1820s over the establishment of a national bank and tariff rates. The elite favored the bank and higher rates; while the opposition was leaderless.
General Andrew Jackson, a charismatic war hero, emerged as its champion in 1824 when his run for the presidency revealed an incipient populist revolt against the status quo.
Jackson lost his first bid, but won a dramatic rematch four years later. His 1828 victory thrilled his supporters, but it horrified the elite; they feared Jackson would establish a dictatorship cheered on by an illiterate mob.
In 1832, the defeated elite rallied around Henry Clay, a stalwart advocate of a strong federal government. Clay believed an unapologetic defense of a national bank would ensure his victory. Clay was spectacularly wrong and Jackson was re-elected in the first landslide in American history.
Following this defeat, the elite shifted into opposition mode. In 1834, Clay established the Whig Party, choosing the name to evoke the English opposition to Tory royalists in that country.
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Wishful thinking. The GOP has no interest in reforming elections.
We can only guess why. Maybe they love the red-blue dualistic money machine?
So, fundamental tyrannies will remain: social media censorship, fiat money and overspending, Federal trampling of states’ rights...
On the contrary it is the GOP which will suffer the same fate as the Whigs, to be replaced by the Social Conservative party.
Great Read!
Kind of a positive historical narrative salve applied to a dystopian present.
Jackson lost his first bid, but won a dramatic rematch four years later. His 1828 victory thrilled his supporters, but it horrified the elite; they feared Jackson would establish a dictatorship cheered on by an illiterate mob.
Sure sounds familiar!
BULLCRAP!!! HALF of our country is either PSTUPID or PURE EVIL! ALL they care about is KILLING BABIES!
the whigs disintegrated because the abolitionist wing of the party split to form the republican party
I think The GOP is more likely to go the way of The Whigs than the democrats who currently control every institution in our country.
The divisions between today’s Republicans are far deeper than the divisions among Democrats. The author sounds like a GOP-E apologist who believes Trump is just an aberration.
Hear this crap every year, the GOP will dissappear before the Dems ever do.
It actually is a great historical comparison. While the GOP is a mess but getting a bit better (McCarthy is an example), the Dems have to rely on illegal immigrant voting and extending the right to vote to people who are noncitizens but who have been in the country for 30 days!! You can vacation in NYC from overseas and vote! And, as Senile Joe let out yesterday, it is who COUNTS the votes that counts.
The Republicans were not abolitionists. Abolitionists could not get more than single digit percentages of the vote in election after election until 1864.
I think we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves here.
Dems are roaches.
The extreme far left skunks and skanks are already bailing off the U.S.S. Garbage Scow, Democracy.
While this is true, the Whigs were made up of a LOT of separate single interest groups - much like the Dems of today.
Once the infighting gets started, it’s hard to stop before fracturing.
Not in my city and county. It doesn’t even exist here.
The Whigs died purely and simply because, like their opponents the DemoKKKrats, they refused to address slavery.
It’s a recurring lesson. If a/both parties refuse to address major issues (illegal immigration, government overreach) one or the other will fade & give way to a party that will.
Disagree. “SOME” in the GOP “have no interest” in reforming elections, but many-—probably most-—do and slowly voting reform is occurring in almost every state.
I do think the DemoKKKrats are doomed, and could go faster than anyone thinks, mainly because of their unwillingness or inability to actually address a single issue anyone cares about.
That’s a great thing!
I think the democrats are very divided. Half are straight up communist, the other half, crony capitalist. The divisions in the republican party are mostly between the party leadership and the voters. Both parties along with the entire American political system are on the chopping block.
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