Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Big Tech and the Legacy Media Intend to Destroy Democracy in the Name of Defending Democracy" video.
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@danmoritz3319 "After 1816, the Federalists had no national power base apart from John Marshall's Supreme Court. They had some local support in New England, New York, eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. After the collapse of the Federalist Party in the course of the 1824 presidential election, most surviving Federalists (including Daniel Webster) joined former Republicans like Henry Clay to form the National Republican Party, which was soon combined with other anti-Jackson groups to form the Whig Party in 1833. By then, nearly all remaining Federalists joined the Whigs. However, some former Federalists like James Buchanan, Louis McLane, and Roger B. Taney became Jacksonian Democrats.
"The "Old Republicans", led by John Randolph of Roanoke, refused to form a coalition with the Federalists and instead set up a separate opposition since Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin, Monroe, John C. Calhoun, and Clay had in effect adopted Federalist principles of implied powers to purchase the Louisiana Territory and after the failures and lessons of the War of 1812 raised tariffs to protect factories, chartered the Second National Bank, promoted a strong army and navy and promoted internal improvements. All these measures were opposed to the strict construction of the Constitution, which was the formal basis of the Republicans, but the drift of the party to support them could not be checked. It was aided by the Supreme Court, whose influence under John Marshall as a nationalizing factor now first became apparent. The whole change reconciled the Federalists to their absorption into the Republican Party. Indeed, they claimed, with considerable show of justice, that the absorption was in the other direction: that the Republicans had recanted and that the "Washington-Monroe policy", as they termed it after 1820, was all that Federalists had ever desired."
"The party appealed to businesses and to conservatives who favored banks, national over state government, manufacturing, an army and navy, and in world affairs preferred Great Britain and opposed the French Revolution. The party favored centralization, federalism, modernization, and protectionism.
"The Federalists called for a strong national government that promoted economic growth and fostered friendly relationships with Great Britain in opposition to Revolutionary France. It controlled the federal government until 1801 when it was overwhelmed by the Democratic-Republican opposition led by President Thomas Jefferson. The Federalist Party came into being between 1789 and 1790 as a national coalition of bankers and businessmen in support of Hamilton's fiscal policies."
Quoting Rep. John Randolph of the "Old Republicans:
“Love of peace, hatred of offensive war, jealousy of the state governments toward the general government, a dread of standing armies, a loathing of public debts, taxes, and excises; tenderness for the liberty of the citizen; jealousy, Argus-eyed jealousy of the patronage of the President.”
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@danmoritz3319 You still don't get it, do you? The Whigs were courting socialism when it started. Horace Greely, a Whig close to Clay, happily published Marx's screeds in his New York newspaper, and Lincoln became a pen pal of Marx. The Roosevelt family in New York were big followers of Marx as well.
It was within the Protestant denominations by the late 1800s, though it came in with the Anabaptists, and it had infected the Episcopalians in Boston, (Church of the Carpenter and a few others), and then came to New York. That's why it was within Columbia U by 1900. They were called "Christian Socialists."
That is the same university, along with two other New York colleges, which brought the Frankfurt School professors in under Dewey. Before that, they were involved in forming the Rand School of Social Science, where Trotsky was lecturing before he left to meet up with Lenin at Saint Petersburg.
After Trotsky fled to Mexico, Dewey made a trip down there to "prove Trotsky's innocence." The grads from Columbia U became the New York Intellectuals, who infected both parties that were already infected by Roosevelt's big government and socialist progressivism. The grads infiltrated the GOP by the early fifties and created the Neoconservatives.
Roosevelt's progressivism was Federalist Socialism, and Wilson was a proud follower as well.
Old Jeffersonian Republican belief, which is what 45 wanted to bring back, and why he favored Jackson, was almost stomped out after the Civil War, courtesy of the new GOP.
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