Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "2022’s Impending Media Bloodbath" video.
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@asisin2 Jeffersonian Republicanism was all about liberty and freedom, which was the direct antithesis of Hamiltonian Federalism that was pro-big business, pro-central banking, and pro-big brother centralized government.
Take a guess at which one grew close to early socialism first. It wasn't Jefferson's Old Republicans.
The problem started early on, especially with central-banking, which both Jefferson and Madison were originally against. However, a deal was made between Madison and Hamilton to allow the first to be established, and we've had a downhill slide ever since.
The Federalists lost their party, but they joined up with Madison's faction during the last two years of his presidency. This later became the Whig Party, which was led by Clay, and then the GOP under Lincoln.
The Jeffersonians became the Democratic Party. However, after reconstruction, more and more started siding with the federalists, and by the late 1800s, when socialism was brought in by the Christian Socialists in the north, the Bourborn Democrats, which was the group that Wilson came from, became full blown federalists. After that, it was in both parties, and a combination of that with socialism became known as progressivism.
The GOP tried to change, and between 1910-12, they booted the progressives out. However, by WWII, they began infiltrating it again, and later, they brought about the New Right and Neoconservatism.
That is what is being cleaned out of the GOP, again, now. 45 wanted to bring back Jeffersonian Old Republican belief, which is why he favored Jefferson and Jackson. His ideology was really that of the Jacksonian Old Democrats and the anti-war Old Right.
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