Commentary

The Way of the Whigs?

By Ben Boychuk
Thursday, September 10 2015

Political parties come and go. The Federalist Party, which dominated the American political scene during the first decade of the republic, was a spent force by 1816 and extinct by 1820. The Progressive Party has come and gone at least three times—first in 1912 with Teddy Roosevelt’s third party run for the presidency; then in 1924 with Robert La Follette’s ill-fated presidential race; and again in 1948 with Henry A. Wallace’s candidacy, which was red as red could be. Who’s to say the Republican Party doesn’t end up much the same way? The Republicans have a…

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