• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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      5 days ago

      This didn’t stop the Whigs from being replaced by Abraham Lincoln’s party. They were the Democratic Party of the time, a fair bit of which didn’t care about slavery. Many former Whigs got frustrated with that, and left to form a party that would be opposed to slavery.

      A major party has died, and we can do it again.