Actually, the Whig comparison is very apt. That party fell apart around 1854 when it refused to stand together on principles. One group within it was defiantly anti-slavery (Conscience) and the other didn’t want to touch social issues and wanted to stick to economics (the Cottons). Sound familiar ?
The GOP goes RINO, and it will end up just like the Whigs. As dead as can be. That’s already happened in the northeast, parts of the midwest, and the west coast.
Now is not then. We weren’t then as we are now faced with the end of our existence as we know it. Given the great disparity between the Parties in the area of national defense, the ONLY thing important NOW is that a liberal be kept OUT of the WH