Americans who believe like the early Federalist ,Alexander Hamilton, that government was a role to encourage economic development for the defense of the country, have no home in either political party today. The Democrats want government ownership and control. The Republicans hold stubbornly to the one world concept of “free trade.” The result is the valley of death for Americans who believe American prosperity comes first. The vision of Alexander Hamilton and Henry Clay’s “American System” brought us the Whig Party. The Whigs formed the political might in the Midwest manufacturing belt (from Chicago-Cleveland –Pittsburgh) and the New England Manufacturing crescent (Connecticut Valley, New York, and Boston), bonding management and labor into a common party. These manufacturing areas would propel the young Whig Abraham Lincoln to the head of the Republican Party and the presidency. American Manufacturing policy as Hamilton had envisioned would rule until the 1920s. Progressives in both the Democrat and Republican Party would reject this nationalistic view and slowly insert a world view which took hold after World War Two. There are Whigs emerging again in some factions of the Tea party and right wing Republicans such as Buchanan. Maybe this recession will lead more conservatives to reject the “Chicago and Austrian School” of “Free Trade” economics, which has dominated both parties and western world governments. (see William McKinley by Quentin Skrabec)
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