I recently read Chief Justice George Marshall's biography of George Washington, which was mainly a history of his times. The then Democrat Party (disguised in subsequent history as the "Democrat-Republican Party") was no good from the beginning, wanting to run an insolvent government on credit and being enamored of the revolutionary government of France. I was amazed to read of the familiarity of its tendencies from a passage of over 200 years.
Oh, yes. But according to Chief Justice Marshall it was first known as the Democratic Party, then later changed its name to mollify those suspicious of the word "Democrat". Years later, they just dropped the word "Republican." This was after the Whigs had supplanted the Federalists. This is the value of reading the original accounts.
I recently read Chief Justice George Marshall's biography of George Washington, which was mainly a history of his times. The then Democrat Party (disguised in subsequent history as the "Democrat-Republican Party") was no good from the beginning, wanting to run an insolvent government on credit and being enamored of the revolutionary government of France. I was amazed to read of the familiarity of its tendencies from a passage of over 200 years.
Side note - the Democratic-Republican Party name predates the Democratic Party name
Oh, yes. But according to Chief Justice Marshall it was first known as the Democratic Party, then later changed its name to mollify those suspicious of the word "Democrat". Years later, they just dropped the word "Republican." This was after the Whigs had supplanted the Federalists. This is the value of reading the original accounts.