[PeterPrinciple]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-washington-critics_b_1289485

Today, while remembering George Washington, Father Of Our Country, I choose instead to remember his biggest and most vocal critic, Benjamin Franklin Bache. Because the republicans of his day would later elect Thomas Jefferson, and Jefferson’s party would later split in the 1820’s, in Andrew Jackson’s time. At this point, some of them began calling themselves democrats (again, usually small-”d”), which later led to the party being called “the Democracy”... and, finally, the “Democratic Party” we all know today.

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George Washington had his media critics too, they became democrats.................

[PeterPrinciple]

Benjamin Franklin Bache didn’t singlehandedly start the opposition to the Federalists in this country. But while saying so would be inaccurate, it is without doubt that Bache was one of the (little-”f”) “founding fathers” of the Democratic Party.

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from the above site