The House speaker battle has revealed the truth: We have three parties now, and the Democrats are the largest one.
is staring us in the face. We have three parties in Congress, not two: the Freedom Caucus Party, the Old Republican Party and the Democrats. The last one has the most members, so it should have the House speakership.on each speakership ballot because he commands the biggest party. So he would be the speaker if our political system were functioning properly.
Party realignments have happened every so often in U.S. history. Early on, they typically involved one party splitting. In the late 1820s, the Democratic-Republicans became, respectively, the Democratic Party and the National Republicans. The latter then evolved into the Whig Party. Then, in the early 1850s, the Whigs split into the Know-Nothings and the Republicans.
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