Good to remember that the "Democratic Party" in particular is a series of at least three different parties that grabbed the name https://twitter.com/tansarue/status/796936712031268864 …
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The figure most like Trump in our history, Andrew Jackson, 100% reinvented Jefferson's party into a mirror of himself
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And the Whig Party that formed in response was pretty much a party of "We hate Andrew Jackson"
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The Whigs were a famously weak party bc they couldn't decide exactly what it was they hated about Jackson
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The Republicans were founded from the Whigs who decided what they really disliked most was slavery (and not the many other atrocities)
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There was a big wing of Whigs who thought relentless expansionism and Native genocide was just as bad, but they lost, and well now look
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Stuff to keep in mind I guess
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