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The origins of the Republican party (lemm.ee)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (15 children)

The success of the Republican Party was only possible due to the fact that the Whigs had already crashed and burned, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

gestures broadly at Democrats

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Electorally crashed and burned. Though if you want to start replacing the current two-party system with a new two-party system, now would be a great time to get the gears moving.

[–] zarkanian 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unfortunately, the person best positioned to do that, Bernie Sanders, is also the person least likely to do that. He's rallying people right now, which is good, but I have no idea what for, and I'm not sure he does, either.

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