>>4352532It's safe to assume that in order to make it in politics you gotta be a republican or a democrat, people don't align with each other's opinions or choices 100% that's why you see bipartisan deals with slight majority republican or slightly democrat, we are made to think that if you are from a party then you 100% condone their decisions but that's not true, like you said there was this other party you mentioned in 1912, it's easy to imagine its members left to join the democrats in order to have more leverage in the political world, also known as an alliance which happens in every country in the world