CCT Dine & Discuss – So What Happened to the Parties of Lincoln and FDR?

Speaker: Charles Kupchella

How did America’s system of political parties come about? Political parties aren’t mentioned at all in the Constitution – and were seen as threats by some of our country’s founders, so how and when did political parties acquire their standing – the right to shape government and define our choices – and do either of our principal political parties have a substantive core? The Republican Party has changed dramatically and would no doubt be unrecognizable to conservative stalwarts such as Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower. What happened? And what about the kaleidoscopic Democratic Party allowing itself to be identified with such extreme liberal nonsense as defunding the police and giving people free stuff. Are we stuck with a two-party system – and, if so, are we stuck with these two? Bring back the Whigs?

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