Did the Democratic-Republicans ever really break ties? Or is it one all inclusive, elusive, illusion foisted upon the American People?
Via Wikipedia it would appear that the what’s old is new… again
The Democratic-Republican Party was the political party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791-93. It stood in opposition to the Federalist Party and controlled the Presidency and Congress, and most states, from 1801 to 1824, during the First Party System. It split after the 1824 presidential election into two parties: the Democratic Party and the short-lived National Republican Party (later succeeded by the Whig Party, many of whose adherents eventually founded the modern Republican Party).
and reunited as bastard cousins, once removed.