▲ 1772 ▼ Republican Party's HQ set ablaze, tagged with "ICE=KKK" in New Mexico (www.newsweek.com) submitted 1 year ago by regrub@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 250 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* America has always been two-party (that's the inevitable game-theory result of how our elections are designed), but it hasn't always been the same two parties. When the Whigs were a thing, the Republican Party didn't exist yet. They also realigned three or four times without changing names. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grue@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* America has always been two-party (that's the inevitable game-theory result of how our elections are designed), but it hasn't always been the same two parties. When the Whigs were a thing, the Republican Party didn't exist yet. They also realigned three or four times without changing names. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States permalink fedilink source parent