Just a little history over the Republican Party....originally created in 1824. They wer nicknamed in this era....'Adams-Clay Republicans', 'Adams's Men', and 'Anti-Jacksonians'.
Leadership originally? John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.
How long they lasted? Well....ten years (they dissolved in 1834).
I should note here that the leading national conservative party was the Whig Party. Both Adams and Clay felt they were 'losers'.
We go through a period in the 1830s where the Whig Party has problems, and are trying to get a wild group up.....themselves, the National Republican Party folks, disenchanted Democrats, and a group bound and determined to anti-Masonic folks (one-issue party and feeling Masons were cult-like).
This lead to a 20-year period of marginal success in elections.
Then in the mid-1850s....along came a revolution in politics....where disenchanted members went off to create what was called the 'American Party'.
I should note in this short era....they also came to be called the 'Know Nothing movement' and "Native American Party."
1860 election....they finally evolved into the Republican Party.
Yeah, to some degree....there were periods where they were fake Republicans, fake Whigs, fake Know Nothings, and fake anti-Masonic folks. There is always such a trend going on.
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