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36. The UK Labour Party

Sat Mar 26, 2016, 12:16 PM

Mar 2016

Founded in 1900, it overtook the UK Liberal Party in the 1920s and has been in power off and on ever since.

A new party in the United States can be founded and built, but it may take a generation or two to gain power.

On the other hand, the US Republican Party took only six years from its founding to elect a president in a four-way race in 1860, so the breakup of the GOP due to the Trump circus might be a great opportunity for a truly progressive US national party! Now, what to name it that isn't already taken, hmmmm....

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