Anonymous ID: 146607 Sept. 23, 2023, 4:36 p.m. No.19599824   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Was looking up the first American political parties.

Funfact:

There were two first, before the Whiggs & others. What's shocking to me is the Republicans & Democrats were in the same one.

Was something askew from the get go? Seems the Federalist party (other than the namesake) was more in tune with current Republican 'conservative' views.

Do I have it wrong? Trying to learn history nowadays can be difficult.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Party_System

 

The First Party System was the political party system in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824.[1] It featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party, formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, usually called at the time the Republican Party (which is distinct from the modern Republican Party).