September 16, 2015: “In this school house on March 20, 1854, was held the first mass meeting in this country that definitively and positively cut loose from old parties, and advocated a new party under the name of Republican.”
In 1854, a group of Wisconsinites met in a one-room schoolhouse in Ripon to take a stand against slavery. They determined that a new political party was the best way to make that happen.
This week, one hundred and fifty years after fielding its first candidate for president, a party whose call for the nation was once “Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men” was taken over by someone whose belief system is closest to the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
On top of that, Deez Nuts isn’t running anymore.