The End of the Republican Party

How Joe Biden's Impeachment Will Embolden and Destroy Them

William Spivey
The Polis
Published in
10 min readAug 26

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Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Political parties have come and gone throughout American history; Alexander Hamiton was part of the Federalist Party, and Thomas Jefferson was a Democratic-Republican. We've had a Know-Nothing Party, an Anti-Masonic Party, and Whigs. All of them came to an end, none of them after a great victory, but after revealing losses. They became out of step with a nation that moved on.

The Republican Party is ending; it will be with a bang and not a whimper. Several Republicans no longer recognize their own Party and have left. The labels "Grand Old Party" and the "Party of Lincoln" no longer apply. Those who left might say they didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left them.

"And, in my view, I don't consider the Republican Party a political party in the United States at the moment."-Retired Judge J. Michael Luttig.

The end of the Whig Party saw them splitting into factions and unable to agree on anything. There were Northern Whigs who favored abolition and Southern Whigs who condoned enslavement. They fought among themselves about the National Bank and argued about their candidates. In 1836, they had four regional candidates receive electoral votes, guaranteeing their defeat to Martin Van Buren. Van Buren was a Democratic-Republican who became one of the founders of the Democratic Party.

The Whigs got behind a single candidate in 1840, and Van Buren lost reelection to Whig William Henry Harrison. Harrison died 31 days into his term, with Vice-President John Tyler ascending to the Presidency. Those days, Presidential candidates often ran on…

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William Spivey
The Polis

I write about politics, history, education, and race. Follow me at williamfspivey.com and support me at https://ko-fi.com/williamfspivey0680