Bob Crawford
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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And you have all of these coalitions from like Southern nullifiers, like John C. Calhoun, people who, you know, in the South, there was this, this thing called nullification that was like really picking up steam, this idea that if a state doesn't like a federal law, they could just nullify it.
And so there was this standoff between Andrew Jackson and the nullifiers.
By the way, John C. Calhoun, the head of the nullifiers, was Andrew Jackson's vice president.
So just how convoluted our politics were at the time.
But ultimately, you have the old Federalists, the nullifiers, a group called the Anti-Masons, which in a weird way we can compare to QAnon.
They all come together and they form the Whig Party.
And so it's out of the executive overreach of Jacksonian democracy that we have the Whig Party.
And it will be those two parties from 1836 until the eve of the Civil War when the Republicans break off.
Essentially, the Whigs break apart and the Republicans come out of that.
And I don't mean to ask a question when I'm the guest here, but here's the question I ask myself.
What happens to the old George W. Bush Republicans?
Like, because that is the comparable with the Whigs.
Like all these factions kind of came together.
We kind of see that.
But those old school Republicans seem to be such a small slice of the pie that that you wonder where that what I call true conservatism, like true conservative, like like MAGA isn't conservative.
It's reactionary.
So they say they're conservatives, but they're really reactionaries in my- There's a lot of Jacksonian elements, right?
Yeah.
Well, well, to get, take the last one first, you know, his dad was his hero, right?
He was his mentor and his hero, but his dad was,
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