The GOP Is Dying. Time for a Whig Revival?
In this piece Timothy Noah argues that [[Liz Cheney]] is correct — the [[GOP]] is moribund, hollowed out by a cult of personality around [[Donald Trump]], and that conservatives should consider founding a new party modeled on the 19th‑century [[Whig Party]]. Noah traces Whig commitments — congressional prerogatives, rule of law, national economic development via a national bank, federally subsidized roads and canals — and suggests modern analogues such as the [[Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act]], the [[CHIPS Act]], and the [[Inflation Reduction Act]] would have appealed to Whigs. A revived Whiggery would reject the MAGA populist turn, favor pragmatic federal action over small‑government orthodoxy, and open space for bipartisan policy conversation, while acknowledging historical Whig flaws—particularly evasions on slavery that led to the party’s collapse and the rise of [[Abraham Lincoln]]’s Republicans.