[Robert DeLong]

You just don't get it. It can only get worse, as it has been doing for the last 50 or more years, unless we can get true reform.

The formation of the Republican Party was a 3rd party, That 2rd party was able to replace the Whig Party.

[rxh4n1]

The formation of the Republican Party was a 3rd party, That 2rd party was able to replace the Whig Party.

The Whig Party was defunct by then. The new Republican Party formed from former Whigs, anti-Nebraska Democrats, and Free Soilers.