A New Party: Eventually, Why Not Now?

The time is ripe—and more than ripe—for the creation of a new, broadly based major party. Please note that I specify a “major” party—which is to say, a party like the Democratic and Republican Parties, consisting of a nationwide coalition of interests and capable of capturing both the Presidency and the Congress.

Since a party must have a name, and since fate appears to be beckoning this one into existence on the 200th anniversary of our country’s independence, I propose to call it “the Independence Party.” I hasten to add that I don’t feel strongly about the matter of a name, provided only that it is a generic one and thereby avoids the sort of fatal particularization that helped to destroy the Greenback Party and the Prohibition Party.

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William A. Rusher

The time is ripe—and more than ripe—for the creation of a new, broadly based major party. Please note that I specify a “major” party—which is to say, a party like the Democratic and Republican Parties, consisting of a nationwide coalition of interests and capable of capturing both the Presidency and the Congress.

Since a party must have a name, and since fate appears to be beckoning this one into existence on the 200th anniversary of our country’s independence, I propose to call it “the Independence Party.” I hasten to add that I don’t feel strongly about the matter of a name, provided only that it is a generic one and thereby avoids the sort of fatal particularization that helped to destroy the Greenback Party and the Prohibition Party.