I can’t quite tell whether the New York Times Magazine piece connecting the Whig Party with today’s Conservative Republican Party (“Bush’s Ancestors”, Sean Wilentz) is insightful or not, but what I do know is this: The following is an asinine statement…

The party’s (Whig Party) sorry demise helps explain why today’s Republican conservatives who study history resist any comparison with the Whigs.

You don’t say? (Another reason, at least publically — and perhaps this is elitist in my mind: the public has no conception of what the Whig Party was.)

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