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Jake Auchincloss: “The Whig Party had a couple of cultural through lines at the…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Published | Video Starts at 32:32

And what's interesting is that the Whig Party, when they finally won and when they actually had electoral success, they did the exact opposite, actually. They were insistent that at the national level, defining The Whig Party had a couple of cultural through lines at the national level. importance of public morality, basically the way that the American public should expect people to carry themselves, because they were always saying Andrew Jackson was kind of A disgrace to the office. (32:32–32:41)

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Asserts that the Whig Party maintained cultural consistency nationally.

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