Can someone give me a quick rundown on these guys?

libertarians

>>2653282

Catholics, Italians, Jews, Asians, Slavic peoples and the Irish are bad. That's about their entire platform.

Got to remember, Americans fucking hated Catholics since before they were a country. Even John F Kennedy was given some trouble by people thinking he was going to take orders from the Pope.

>>2654068

They were REEEing at everybody from Eastern Europe, not just Slavs.

>>2654068
I think you're confusing whigs with know nothings

>>2654068
>>2654121

Oh shit, I was thinking about the Know-nothing party, not the Whigs.

>>2653282

The good guys.

Wanted to modernize the nation's infrastructure and industry.

Wanted a strong union.

Wanted to ease sectionalism.

They were sort of socialist, regarding infrastructure and protectionism but not exactly a labor party if that makes sense. Sort of like a very light fascist.

>>2654189
>sort of socialist
> not exactly a labor party
>Sort of like a very light fascist.
No, no, and no. The democrats were the party of the "common man." Whigs were more like one of those business-friendly "liberal democrat" center/center-right libertarian parties that limp to a third or fourth place finish at the polls in most parliamentary democracies.

>>2654207
>wanted protectionist policies
>libertarian

explain

Libertarian, free market , nationalist, isolationists

>>2654266
>>2654189
kys

>>2654189
>Socialist
>Fascist

Where on earth do you get your political history from? The Whigs have always been characertised by their Liberal Conservative policies.

>>2654207
>Whigs were more like one of those business-friendly "liberal democrat" center/center-right libertarian parties
I find it especially humorous you are trying to compare Whigs to libertarians when Whigs were one of the major proponents for increasing the number of public roads.

>>2653282
>They couldn't possibly be worse

Good slogan.

>>2654664

right-libertarian =/= ancap

Anti-slavery
Anti-Mexican war
Pro-tariffs
Nationalists
Federalists

>>2653282
Second party to form (sometime in 1688-9) in England after the tories, were the parliamentarian side of the English civil war, but more like Manchester than Cromwell. So believed in monarchy, but it was to be restricted. Originally religiously tolerant of other Protestant movements, orthodox and Judaism, later of Catholics and Hindus.
Whilst tories were royalists in the English civil war, fully believing in Anglicanism only, formed soon after Charles landed, made of his court and their friend's friends.
Both alternated between pro and anti war, ideology certainly changed by the time of their collapses in Victoria's reign.
Whig cake was what the American revolutionaries offered parliament in 1789-paraphrasing Starkey