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The Exciting Rise and Dreary Death of a Third-Party
How one new political movement rose and fell before our eyes
They were mad as all Hell and wanted everyone to know it. In the final days of the 2016 election, conversations were held between activists, donors, and bloggers to devise a way out for conservatives disenfranchised with the state of the Republican party. The partisan pinata was beaten by both establishment Republicans who wanted to keep the ball in their court and populists who wanted to burn the whole thing down and let whatever came up from the ashes take the lead. This was the rise of the modern Federalist Party, a rise met with the same loud, fiery death attitude which led to its downfall.
Many Never Trump conservatives felt homeless long before the RNC convention in Cleveland that year. First the party they stuck by and felt they had a firm footing in after the Tea Party years began to drift away with peculiar Trump voters that were far less interested in the opinions of George Will and the Heritage Foundation, and more interested in the Donald’s America First messaging. For many that tried to crawl over to the Libertarian Party, they were treated as insurgents, and for the ones that weren't forced out, they walked out because of the libertine manner in which the Johnson-Weld ticket was carrying itself. With no home left and…
