JoinSign inShare this postIs It Time for the Republican Party to Split Apart?thedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailFeb 17, 2021Share this postIs It Time for the Republican Party to Split Apart?thedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailOn the cold, windy night of March 20, 1854, 36-year-old lawyer Alvan Bovay rounded up dozens of his neighbors in Ripon, Wisconsin, and gathered them in a schoolhouse for a meeting that would change the course of American history.It was the group’s second gathering of the month. Weeks earlier, Bovay, a member of the Whig Party, had issued a bulletin: “A...…JoinSign inShare this postIs It Time for the Republican Party to Split Apart?thedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailFeb 17, 2021Share this postIs It Time for the Republican Party to Split Apart?thedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailOn the cold, windy night of March 20, 1854, 36-year-old lawyer Alvan Bovay rounded up dozens of his neighbors in Ripon, Wisconsin, and gathered them in a schoolhouse for a meeting that would change the course of American history.It was the group’s second gathering of the month. Weeks earlier, Bovay, a member of the Whig Party, had issued a bulletin: “A...WW…