Is the Republican Party About to Go the Way of the Whigs?

We like to believe we can vote for whomever we want in the United States, yet because we do not practice a parliamentary system nor a national-level system of proportional representation, our electoral system is designed for only the Democratic or Republican party.

But could the current Republican party be in the inchoate stages of fracturing off into an eventual third party?

Multiple state Republican parties have been retaliating against fellow GOP lawmakers for abandoning their allegiance to Donald Trump in the wake of the attempted Capitol coup d’etat on January 6 and Trump’s second impeachment.

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