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that's not really the "history" of it.
the whigs were viable for a short period of time before our current democrat/republican duality. they imploded themselves, it wasn't due to some outside agitating party that successfully challenged the whigs. Republicans were later, it wasn't like the whigs challenged a party that had been holding power for 150 years. There just doesn't seem to be a history of multiple parties operating in and out of control in the US and I'm not quite sure why people think something new is happening that hasn't happened in 200 years to change that.
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