We have always had two major political parties. That doesn’t mean that they have been the same since the formation of parties, but only two at a time has been the rule. When the Republican Party was formed, the Whigs disappeared practically overnight. The third party in the Election of 1860 was the Constitutional Union Party, they didn’t go very far, did they? I’d love to see the Republican Party go away, but I’m not willing to hand a victory over to the Democrats as the price of the bargain.