HBO's Bill Maher sounded the alarm on the current state of Democratic Party, warning Democrats may share the same fate as the ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican ... They favored localism and freedom from modern institutions such as banks, factories, and reform movements. They had a commitment to states ...

This difference became especially pronounced by the 1830s, when a growing divide between Andrew Jackson’s Democratic party and the opposition Whig party came to define the American political debate.