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With a POD after the election of George Washington as President, your challenge is to kill off the Democratic-Republican Party while strengthening the Federalist Party to the point that, by the late 1810s, all major politicians are nominally Federalists, until the party breaks up, as the DRs did historically, around the 1820s/30s.

Starting suggestions:

- Quasi-War goes hot, perhaps a more belligerent France?
- Hamilton is more successful, perhaps his affair never becomes public?
- The Federalists find some issue that appeals to the South (not sure what).

Bonus points to anyone who comes up with s good name/platform for their new rival party when it eventually forms, that goes hand and hand (like the modern Democrat and Republican names go well as opposites). Suggestion could be the Nationalist Party.
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