Could Both Political Parties Collapse? Please?
By Peter Heck | November 4, 2017, 04:22pm | @peterheck In class the other day a group of my students were quizzing each other over the early history of political parties in the United States – how the feud between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson split the Democratic-Republican Party, how the Whigs died out to the upstart Liberty-turned-Free Soil-turned-Republican Party, and even the contributions of the Anti-Masons.
One of them asked me why there was so much turmoil, variation, and change in the two major parties in early American history, but pretty much static control of the system by our two current parties since Jackson and Lincoln. There are plenty of decent answers, but the discussion itself prompts another intriguing question: is there any possibility of the Republican/Democrat stranglehold on political power collapsing any time soon?
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