The Republican Party is NOT Sustainable

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39. Parties changed, and sometimes die (Whigs, Federalists) but the right and the left endures.

Eisenhower was a real Republican and a Conservative in the context of his time. This was the same time that William F. Buckley fought to purge the racist, hyper nationalist John Birch Society out of the Republican Party. Back in those days, the New England states were a bastion of the Republican Party and the old South was a Democratic stronghold from the Mason-Dixon Line to the Gulf. Not much later, Johnson passed the Civil Rights act with the help of those New England Republicans while the Southern Democrats opposed it.

Beginning with Nixon's "Southern Strategy" Republicans began appealing to Southern Democrats using racist language. Reagan took those Southern Democrats and made them Reagan Democrats. Under Clinton, the last of the Democratic establishment in the South switched parties.

Beginning with FDR and Truman, the the Democratic Party began the change to the part we have today, eventually loosing the South as the parties changed.

Todays Teaparty is just the John Birch Society with a different name and poor spelling. It is even funded and partially founded by the Koch brothers, whose father was the cofounder of the John Birch Society.

The Republican Party, or a conservative party, will always exist. Even if they go the way of the Whigs, another party will take its place, or, conservative elements in the Democratic Party will continue to move the party to the right and some party like the Greens will become the New Left/progressive/liberal party.

It is the nature of any human institution to change and evolve through time.