Republican patient needs some meds it appears.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

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[caerfrli.livejournal.com]

so when can we expect a resurgence of the Whigs?

[kgbman.livejournal.com]

They all joined the Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln started his career as a Whig.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Right, so they're extinct then.

[kgbman.livejournal.com]

In retrospect, I should have made a distinction between the party and the principles that anchor them. The Democratic and Republican parties could both go extinct tomorrow, but that wouldn't mean liberalism and conservatism as we know them would go away. The Whig Party is extinct, but Whig ideas carried over into the Republican Party. The same with Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans and Jackson's Democrats.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Well that would be nice if we were talking about general ideals, e.g. you could talk about political parties in Great Britian from the 18th century that haven't died. Hell go for broke and go back to Republican Rome. But that's not what the cartoon was speaking about, nor most that commented on the original post.